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Anneliese

#1,207 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Anneliese has been given to 5,943 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #1,207 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 272 recorded.

Babies named Anneliese, 2025

1 in 17,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anneliese: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anneliese means

Anneliese is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anneliese is used in German.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Anneliese is pronounced /ˈʔanəˌliːzə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,943 girls were recorded with the name Anneliese between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 272 in 2005; its best national rank was #914 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,579 in 2020 to #1,207 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,247 in 2015 to #1,207 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 Anneliese?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,600
188 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,550
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,207
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,224 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anneliese 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,224 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anneliese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annelieses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anneliese was born before 2007 — so the typical Anneliese is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,859
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (1,722).

Is Anneliese 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
+208
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+372
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+40
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.1%
Peak was 2005 (272)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#914
2005

Spellings of Anneliese

Anneliese is not the most common spelling — Annalise is, with 45.6% against Anneliese's 15.8%.

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 Anneliese is used

Across 2016–2025, Anneliese was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 14,590 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

214 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 7,143
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  3. 3New York1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5Ohio1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7California1 in 14,286
  8. 8Michigan1 in 14,286

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.

Anneliese around the world

Where Anneliese 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2010
    #666
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2007–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • France
    1902–2006
    #5,419
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anneliese

People whose public names include Anneliese, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anneliese in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anneliese. Linked forms have their own page here.

AnelieseAnnalisaAnneliesAnnalieseAnnlieseAnna-LisaAnne-Lise

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anneliese by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,207
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 372
Best rank ever
#914
2005
Peak year
2005
272 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,943
Count in 2025
188

Names similar to Anneliese

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

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Names with a curve like Anneliese

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anneliese, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anneliese

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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