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Anni

#6,138 in 2025Girls' name

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Annie

Anni has been given to 626 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #6,138 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Anni, 2025

1 in 174,000

Anni over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anni: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Annie

Danish

What Anni means

Anni belongs to the name family reached through Anni → Annie → Annie → Ann. Its meaning is “grace, gracious, graced with child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anni is used in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greenlandic, Swedish and Welsh. Its origins include Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annie, Anna and Ann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Anni is pronounced /ˈɑnːi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 626 girls were recorded with the name Anni between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2001; its best national rank was #4,443 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,453 in 2020 to #6,138 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,686 in 2015 to #6,138 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 Anni?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,138
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anni 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anni was born before 2003 — so the typical Anni is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
611
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Anni 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
+2,351
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,315
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,548
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.0%
Peak was 2001 (20)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,443
1932

Spellings of Anni

Anni is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 30.6% against Anni's 0.02%.

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 Anni is used

Across 1910–2025, Anni was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 727,853 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. Anni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anni around the world

Where Anni 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
    1998–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • France
    1930–1954
    #1,503
    in 1954
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Anni by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,138
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,315
Best rank ever
#4,443
1932
Peak year
2001
20 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
626
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Anni

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

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Sibling names for Anni

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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