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Anneli

#6,866 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Anneliese

Anneli has been given to 494 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #6,866 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Anneli, 2025

1 in 207,000

Anneli over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anneli: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Anneliese

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anneli means

Anneli is a short form of Anneliese.

Origin, language, and formation

Anneli is used in Estonian, Finnish, German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anneliese and Anna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Anneli is pronounced /ˈɑnːeli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 494 girls were recorded with the name Anneli between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2018; its best national rank was #5,467 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,495 in 2020 to #6,866 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,259 in 2015 to #6,866 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anneli?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,866
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anneli sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anneli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annelis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anneli was born before 2012 — so the typical Anneli is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
494
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (161).

Is Anneli rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+98
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,371
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−607
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.6%
Peak was 2018 (23)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,467
2018

Spellings of Anneli

Anneli is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 56.8% against Anneli's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anneli is used

Across 1910–2025, Anneli was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anneli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anneli around the world

Where Anneli ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1964–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anneli by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,866
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,371
Best rank ever
#5,467
2018
Peak year
2018
23 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
494
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Anneli

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Anneli

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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