How rare is the name Annabel?

11,292 people in the United States have the first name Annabel, about 1 in 26,747. It ranks #2,292 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANNABEL

#2,292

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,292
About
1 in 26,747
This common or more
79.3%
Who bears it

Of the 11,292 people named Annabel, 57.7% reported their origin as White, 26.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Annabel peaked in 2014, when 716 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2014
Births that year
716
In 2025*
91 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,974 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Annabel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #1,023. The largest share of babies named Annabel, 35%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,116127
1890s#1,023217
1900s#1,086275
1910s#1,123922
1920s#1,2771,087
1930s#1,980429
1940s#3,043243
1950s#3,425261
1960s#3,062374
1970s#3,379403
1980s#2,776690
1990s#2,2351,332
2000s#1,4863,131
2010s#1,2014,657
2020s#2,845826
Before 19012.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2714%
Silent Generation 1928–454.8%
Baby boom 1946–643.7%
Generation X 1965–804.3%
Millennials 1981–969.6%
Generation Z 1997–1235%
2013 and later26%

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 Annabel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Annabel has been most common in Texas (1.8×), California (1.8×), and Colorado (1.5×), and least common in Alabama (0.28×).

10,451 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.

Also a last name

As a last name, Annabel ranks #141,309 of 156,621, with 121 people. See Annabel as a last name

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