How Many People Are Named Annette?

121,495

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

About 1 in 2,813 people in the US has this name

Based on 169,795 babies named Annette in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#459

⭐ Uncommon

Rank Among Girl Names

#232

See the top 100

Peak Year

1960

7,158 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: French, English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch
Pronunciation: A-NET (French), Ι™-NET (English), a-NE-tΙ™ (German)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

French diminutive of ANNE (1). It has also been widely used in the English-speaking world, and it became popular in America in the late 1950s due to the fame of actress Annette Funicello (1942-).

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.7%
Male
0.3%

Almost all of the babies given the name Annette (99.7%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Annette alive today is about 60 years old, and 63% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 55 and 68 in 2025.

Under 30 7,366
6.1%
30 to 59 38,014
31.3%
60 and over 76,115
62.6%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Annette first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1960, to 7,158 babies. In 2025, 149 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Annette never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #62, in 1960, and it was in the top 100 for 11 years, 1957 to 1967. In 2025 it ranked #1,443.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,443
Best rank#62 (1960)
Years in the top 10011 (1957 to 1967)
Rank in its biggest decade#75 in the 1960s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Annette were born in California than in any other state: about 13,490 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Annette was given 2 times as often in Utah, 1.6 times in New Mexico and 1.4 times in Hawaii.

California 13,490
New York 11,373
Texas 7,834
Illinois 7,113
Pennsylvania 5,982
Michigan 5,913
Ohio 5,841
Florida 3,669
New Jersey 3,102
North Carolina 3,025
Georgia 3,004
Indiana 2,642
Louisiana 2,598
Wisconsin 2,582
Virginia 2,329
Minnesota 2,264
Alabama 2,235
South Carolina 2,162
Massachusetts 2,117
Missouri 2,070
Mississippi 1,792
Washington 1,754
Iowa 1,648
Maryland 1,599
Tennessee 1,580
Colorado 1,572
Utah 1,557
Arizona 1,546
New Mexico 1,263
Kansas 1,138
Connecticut 1,084
Kentucky 1,078
Arkansas 1,032
Oregon 1,000
Nebraska 878
Oklahoma 848
District of Columbia 802
West Virginia 699
Hawaii 560
Maine 557
Idaho 497
North Dakota 414
Rhode Island 390
Montana 319
South Dakota 318
New Hampshire 314
Delaware 212
Vermont 204
Nevada 197
Wyoming 178
Alaska 98

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