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Annetta

#9,509 in 2025Girls' name

Grace, gracious, through Annette

Annetta has been given to 8,814 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #9,509 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1941, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Annetta, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annetta: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, through Annette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annetta means

Annetta belongs to the name family reached through Annetta → Annette. Its meaning is “grace, gracious”.

Origin, language, and formation

Annetta is used in English and Icelandic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,814 girls were recorded with the name Annetta between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 1941; its best national rank was #389 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,182 in 2020 to #9,509 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,666 in 2015 to #9,509 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 Annetta?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,509
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annetta 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annetta was born before 1944 — so the typical Annetta is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,759
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1940s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (1,389).

Is Annetta 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
+5,983
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,673
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,157
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 1941 (183)
Years since peak
84
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#389
1880

Spellings of Annetta

Annetta is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 71.6% against Annetta's 3.7%.

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 Annetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Annetta was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 30,318 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 6,667
  2. 2Indiana1 in 11,111
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Missouri1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 16,667
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 20,000

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. Annetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annetta around the world

Where Annetta 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
    2000–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1964–1972
    #428
    in 1972
  • Canada
    2015–2015
    #3,185
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1945–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Notable people named Annetta

People whose public names include Annetta, 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.

Annetta in other languages

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

AnnAnjaAnnaAnneHannaAnetteAnnettAnnetteAnaïsAnete

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

Annetta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,509
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,673
Best rank ever
#389
1880
Peak year
1941
183 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,814
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Annetta

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

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Names with a curve like Annetta

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

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Sibling names for Annetta

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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