How rare is the name Annie?

115,909 people in the United States have the first name Annie, about 1 in 2,606. It ranks #487 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANNIE

#487

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
115,909
About
1 in 2,606
This common or more
58%
Who bears it

Of the 115,909 people named Annie, 40.9% reported their origin as White, 36.8% as Black and 13.5% 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.

Annie peaked in 1922, when 7,513 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1922
Births that year
7,513
In 2025*
1,690 ▼78%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 362,180 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.

Annie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #24. The largest share of babies named Annie, 37.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2417,106
1890s#2723,211
1900s#2727,894
1910s#5552,569
1920s#6169,902
1930s#8449,379
1940s#15438,956
1950s#29323,822
1960s#5359,689
1970s#7355,423
1980s#5738,305
1990s#6368,620
2000s#6958,861
2010s#6719,867
2020s#4678,576
Before 190112.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2737.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4523.8%
Baby boom 1946–6412.4%
Generation X 1965–802.7%
Millennials 1981–963.6%
Generation Z 1997–123.9%
2013 and later4.4%

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 Annie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Annie has been most common in Mississippi (7.2×), Alabama (6.5×), and South Carolina (5.1×), and least common in Wyoming (0.08×).

289,436 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.

Either side of Annie

#485 Garrett · 116,551#486 Alexa · 115,935#488 Kaylee · 115,422#489 Nick · 115,412

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Annie, most common first.

#252 Anne · 221,693#8,362 Anni · 1,739#11,655 Annia · 1,092#20,463 Anie · 505#38,175 Annee · 202#53,366 Annye · 100

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