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Anne

#619 in the US in 2025

Where Anne stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#619girls’ names · US 2025

Anne was the 619th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 472 births.

peak 1959 · 5,745188019532025

Its moment was 1959, when 5,745 babies were given it.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#619US rank, 2025 (girls)
472US births in 2025
#52its best US rank, in 1915
1959peak year — 5,745 births
325,128US births since 1880
8,181NZ births since 1906
185E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Anne's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Anne was under the floor in no year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Anne in the United States

188019001920194019601980200020200.0221442
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Anne in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been steady.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Anne in New Zealand

In New Zealand, Anne has been registered 8,181 times since 1906, peaking in 1954 with 328 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.

19001920194019601980200020200.07501500
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 10-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Anne in New Zealand, 1900–2025

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Anne in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Anne was registered 185 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2020 with 34 births. It ranked #1,110 for girls in 2025 on 30 births.

2020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 3-BIRTH FLOOR0.06.413
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Anne in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1880#120136
1890#123319
1900#108614
1910#671,413
1920#654,114
1930#833,091
1940#842,897
1950#844,459
1960#885,636
1970#1123,441
1980#1122,780
1990#1551,926
2000#2981,081
2010#609484
2020#626463

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Anne most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
New York47,098
Pennsylvania27,682
Massachusetts20,365
California18,883
Illinois17,731
Ohio14,774
New Jersey13,898
Michigan13,606
Virginia9,513
Texas7,916

Questions about Anne

How popular is the name Anne?

Anne ranked #619 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 472 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Anne most popular?

Anne peaked in 1959, when 5,745 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Anne rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Anne has been steady between 2016 and 2025.

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1959, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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