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Annelise

#1,072 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Annelise has been given to 6,523 babies in the U.S. since 1930. In 2025 it ranked #1,072 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 226 recorded.

Babies named Annelise, 2025

1 in 14,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annelise: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annelise means

Annelise is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Annelise is used in Danish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,523 girls were recorded with the name Annelise between 1930 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 226 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,072 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,422 in 2020 to #1,072 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,197 in 2015 to #1,072 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 Annelise?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,700
226 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,110
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,072
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,169 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annelise 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 10,169 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annelise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annelises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annelise was born before 2008 — so the typical Annelise is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,513
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (2,029).

Is Annelise 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
+235
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+350
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+125
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (226)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,072
2025

Spellings of Annelise

Annelise is not the most common spelling — Angeline is, with 40.5% against Annelise's 7.2%.

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 Annelise is used

Across 2016–2025, Annelise was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 10,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 33,333).

319 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 5,263
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 5,882
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 6,667
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,143
  6. 6Florida1 in 9,091
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 9,091

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.

Annelise around the world

Where Annelise 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
    1997–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1992–2016
    #675
    in 2016
  • France
    1906–2025
    #2,547
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2001
    #565
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Annelise

People whose public names include Annelise, 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.

Annelise in other languages

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

Anne-Lise

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

Annelise by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,072
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 350
Best rank ever
#1,072
2025
Peak year
2025
226 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,523
Count in 2025
226

Names similar to Annelise

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

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Names with a curve like Annelise

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

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Sibling names for Annelise

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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