How rare is the name Anabelle?

8,420 people in the United States have the first name Anabelle, about 1 in 35,871. It ranks #2,768 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

ANABELLE

#2,768

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,420
About
1 in 35,871
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,420 people named Anabelle, 45.1% reported their origin as White, 39.9% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.8% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anabelle peaked in 2014, when 686 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
686
In 2025*
56 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 8,919 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anabelle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,206. The largest share of babies named Anabelle, 57%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#7,03232
1920s#6,67066
1950s#10,66721
1960s#8,75754
1970s#7,868109
1980s#7,384160
1990s#4,567451
2000s#1,5442,947
2010s#1,2064,607
2020s#4,171472
Greatest Generation 1901–271%
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–640.6%
Generation X 1965–801.6%
Millennials 1981–963.9%
Generation Z 1997–1257%
2013 and later35.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anabelle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anabelle has been most common in Nevada (3.3×), Florida (3×), and Arizona (2.6×), and least common in Kentucky (0.29×).

7,196 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Anabelle

2 other first names also have 8,420 people.

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