How Many People Are Named Annabel?

11,700

people named Annabel are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 29,212 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,974 babies named Annabel in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,244

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,241

See the top 100

Peak Year

2014

716 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English, Dutch
Pronunciation: AN-ə-bel (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of AMABEL influenced by the name ANNA. This name appears to have arisen in Scotland in the Middle Ages.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Annabel in English. Counting Annabel and these spellings together, about 73,981 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Annabel in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Annabel alive today is about 22 years old, and 79% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 9,191
78.6%
30 to 59 1,838
15.7%
60 and over 671
5.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Annabel first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2014, to 716 babies. In 2025, 91 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Annabel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #447, in 2014. In 2025 it ranked #2,065.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,065
Best rank#447 (2014)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#620 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Annabel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Annabel were born in California than in any other state: about 1,812 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Annabel was given 1.5 times as often in Massachusetts, 1.4 times in California and 1.4 times in Ohio.

California 1,812
Texas 1,387
New York 883
Florida 462
Illinois 420
Massachusetts 320
Ohio 312
Pennsylvania 311
Virginia 277
Michigan 260
New Jersey 251
North Carolina 244
Georgia 222
Washington 202
Colorado 188
Maryland 180
Indiana 158
Minnesota 152
Missouri 118
Tennessee 115
Connecticut 113
Arizona 111
Wisconsin 90
Kansas 75
Oregon 67
Kentucky 64
Oklahoma 56
Alabama 55
Iowa 54
Louisiana 51
Utah 29
South Carolina 28
District of Columbia 24
Nevada 23
Arkansas 18
New Mexico 16
Mississippi 7
Maine 6
North Dakota 6
Nebraska 5
Delaware 5
Idaho 5
New Hampshire 5
West Virginia 1

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