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Annelie

#8,921 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Anna

Annelie has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,921 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Annelie, 2025

1 in 301,000

Annelie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annelie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Anna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annelie means

Annelie is a diminutive of Anna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Annelie is a diminutive of Anna. Anna has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Annelie is used in German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anna and Anneli.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 280 girls were recorded with the name Annelie between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,811 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,003 in 2020 to #8,921 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,975 in 2015 to #8,921 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.

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How common is Annelie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,921
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annelie 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annelie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annelies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annelie was born before 2014 — so the typical Annelie is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
280
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Choose a decade

2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Annelie 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
−434
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,054
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2016 (22)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,811
2016

Spellings of Annelie

Annelie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 54.3% against Annelie'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 Annelie is used

Across 1910–2025, Annelie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 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. Annelie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annelie around the world

Where Annelie 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
    2004–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–1992
    #641
    in 1992
  • France
    1982–2018
    #7,597
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1955–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Annelie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,921
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#5,811
2016
Peak year
2016
22 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Annelie

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

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Sibling names for Annelie

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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