Annell

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Annell has been given to 653 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1951, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Annell, 1995

1 in 366,000

Annell over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annell: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annell means

Annell is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Annell is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Annell is pronounced /ˈanɛɬ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 653 girls were recorded with the name Annell between 1915 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1951; its best national rank was #1,552 in 1936.

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 Annell?

Annell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995: 1 in 366,000; 10 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only: 1 in 176,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 253,711 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Annell 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 1995 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 253,711 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annell was born before 1942 — so the typical Annell is around 83 today.

Median birth year: 1942; About 83 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.1%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 195; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Annell 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1951 (27)
Years since peak: 74; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,552; 1936

Spellings of Annell

Annell is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 55.0% against Annell's 0.05%.

Angela55.0%673,257
Anne26.6%325,128
Angel8.2%100,288
Nell2.3%27,612
Janell1.3%15,733
Annabell0.55%6,725
Adell0.51%6,214
Gaynell0.35%4,251

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 Annell is used

Across 1910–2025, Annell was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 428,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in —
2Georgia1 in —
3Mississippi1 in —
4Texas1 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. Annell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annell by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,552; 1936
Peak year: 1951; 27 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1995
All-time count: 653
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Annell

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

Annica Annisa Annabell Annaka Annaly Annali Annora Anneka Anneli Annais Annaya Annahi Annya Anniah Annia Annalea Annel Annslee Annella Anniyah Annsley Anniebell Anneth Annlee

Sibling names for Annell

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

For a sister

Kathlyn Randy Oralia Roseanna Roseanne Louann Celestine Nanci

For a brother

Val Williams Rogers Ivory Donn Jacky Ike Dannie

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