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Anouk

Girls' name

Diminutive of Anna

Anouk has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2007, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Anouk, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anouk: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Anna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anouk means

Anouk is a diminutive of Anna.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anouk is used in Dutch and French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /aː.ˈnuk/ and /a.nuk/ for Anouk.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Anouk is a diminutive of Anna. Anna has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Anouk is used in Dutch.

Anouk comes through French Anouk.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anna and Anne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Anouk is pronounced /aːˈnuk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 382 girls were recorded with the name Anouk between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,107 in 2007.

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 Anouk?

Anouk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anouk 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anouk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anouks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anouk was born before 2010 — so the typical Anouk is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
382
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Anouk 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (28)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,107
2007

Spellings of Anouk

Anouk is not the most common spelling — Nour is, with 44.6% against Anouk's 5.9%.

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 Anouk is used

Across 1910–2025, Anouk was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 419,400 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Anouk has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anouk around the world

Where Anouk 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
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #700
    in 2020
  • France
    1950–2025
    #225
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #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.

Anouk 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
#5,107
2007
Peak year
2007
28 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
382
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anouk

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

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Sibling names for Anouk

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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