Annie

femaleA diminutive of Anne, tracing to the Hebrew root 'hanan' via Latin Anna

A diminutive of Anne, itself from the Hebrew root 'hanan' ('grace, favour') via Latin Anna.

Origin: A diminutive of Anne, tracing to the Hebrew root 'hanan' via Latin Anna

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #8 in Northern Ireland in 2022. See regions.

Annie: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #8 in 2022, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
202times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#8highest recorded position
34groupings it qualifies for
19names it appears alongside

What stands out in Annie's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 25 years running. Names by top-100 run
Moved 203 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
Appears alongside 19 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships

AN-ee/ˈæn.i/

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

Confidence in the evidencebehind this name's data — never a rating of the name itself, and never affected by how well it matches your preferences. How this is assessed

Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (5) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

Descriptive attributes of the name itself — not a confidence measurement, and not an overall quality score. Namewise doesn't approve or disapprove of names.

Pronunciation clarity

Editorial judgement of how consistently this name is pronounced correctly on first read, mapped from an easy/moderate/variable rating to a number. Describes the name — not a measure of evidence confidence.

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: A diminutive of Anne, tracing to the Hebrew root 'hanan' via Latin Anna
Meaning: A diminutive of Anne, itself from the Hebrew root 'hanan' ('grace, favour') via Latin Anna.
Pronunciation: AN-ee
Syllables: 2
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: female
Language family: A diminutive of Anne, tracing to the Hebrew root 'hanan' via Latin Anna

Popularity

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#119
1997	#119
1998	#115
1999	#132
2000	#128
2001	#150
2002	#155
2003	#172
2004	#188
2005	#163
2006	#178
2007	#172
2008	#162
2009	#153
2010	#148
2011	#144
2012	#125
2013	#125
2014	#115
2015	#119
2016	#108
2017	#109
2018	#122
2019	#115
2020	#132
2021	#112
2022	#113
2023	#113
2024	#115
2025	#111

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2025: #33 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #111 among girls in England and Wales, #214 among girls in Norway.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #180 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #111 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Annie appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,139 births with the name.

Annie across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Annie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#180 (1945)	#151 (1949)	#214 (2025)	81 of 81	1,139 (1945–2025)	30 (1947)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#112 (1964)	#33 (2025)	#33 (2025)	62 of 62	2,521 (1964–2025)	129 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#119 (1996)	#108 (2016)	#111 (2025)	30 of 30	11,799 (1996–2025)	534 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#112 (1997)	#8 (2022)	#11 (2024)	28 of 28	1,501 (1997–2024)	97 (2022)

Annie by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Annie in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	122	5 of 10	24
1950s	208	10 of 10	21
1960s	117	10 of 10	12
1970s	100	10 of 10	10
1980s	97	10 of 10	10
1990s	108	10 of 10	11
2000s	124	10 of 10	12
2010s	147	10 of 10	15
2020s	116	6 of 10	19

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Annie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #8, first reached in 2022.

It held a top-100 place in 26 years, 25 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 534 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Annie was ranked #8 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Annette · #31, 73y
Anni · #200, 56y
Annie-Mae · #424, 27y
Annie-May · #1807, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Astrid · #9, 81y
Barbara · #10, 80y
Jakob · #6, 81y
Jenny · #13, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Alexander · #8, 77y
Anthony · #8, 77y
Elsie · #8, 47y
Espen · #8, 81y

Comparisons involving Annie

Existing comparison pages where Annie and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Annie in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Sinead vs Annie
In 1964 they stood at #109 and #112 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, 3 places apart; by 2022 they were #905 and #51.
Sinead · Annie · 58 shared years, 1964–2022 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2022 Republic of Ireland ranking
Annie vs Janet
In 1964 they stood at #112 and #106 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, 6 places apart; by 2018 they were #73 and #896.
Annie · Janet · 43 shared years, 1964–2018 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2018 Republic of Ireland ranking
Annie vs Pamela
In 1964 they stood at #112 and #116 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, 4 places apart; by 2017 they were #74 and #873.
Annie · Pamela · 46 shared years, 1964–2017 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2017 Republic of Ireland ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Annie and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Anna vs Annie
In 2022, Annie moved ahead of Anna in Northern Ireland · Girls — #9 and #18 the year before became #16 and #8.
Anna · Annie · 28 shared years, 1997–2024 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 2022 Northern Ireland ranking
Lucy vs Annie
In 2022, Annie moved ahead of Lucy in Northern Ireland · Girls — #12 and #18 the year before became #23 and #8.
Lucy · Annie · 28 shared years, 1997–2024 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 2022 Northern Ireland ranking

Compared inside Northern Ireland lists

Pairs involving Annie measured in Northern Ireland's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Annie at its highest position.

Annie vs Kirsten
In 1997 they stood at #112 and #109 in Northern Ireland · Girls, 3 places apart; by 2015 they were #27 and #426.
Annie · Kirsten · 16 shared years, 1997–2015 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2015 Northern Ireland ranking
Annie vs Jenna
In 1997 they stood at #112 and #109 in Northern Ireland · Girls, 3 places apart; by 2022 they were #8 and #354.
Annie · Jenna · 24 shared years, 1997–2022 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2022 Northern Ireland ranking
Isla vs Annie
Both reached their highest recorded position in Northern Ireland · Girls within 2 years — Isla #1 in 2023, Annie #8 in 2022.
Isla · Annie · 21 shared years, 2004–2024 · Peaked in the same years
See the 2023 Northern Ireland ranking

Northern Ireland overview→

Annie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Annie without appearing here.

Annie moved ahead of

Wenche
In 1995 they stood at #479 and #310 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #367 and #612.
Monica
In 1991 they stood at #250 and #207 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1992 that had become #220 and #456.
Hilde
In 2005 they stood at #399 and #328 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #326 and #561.
Gerd
In 1991 they stood at #497 and #402 in Norway · Girls; by 1992 that had become #376 and #593.

Moved ahead of Annie

Maia
In 1994 they stood at #335 and #365 in Norway · Girls; by 1995 that had become #479 and #259.
Emilie
In 1984 they stood at #377 and #596 in Norway · Girls; by 1985 that had become #434 and #243.
Alice
In 2021 they stood at #174 and #221 in Norway · Girls; by 2022 that had become #332 and #170.
Hedvig
In 1997 they stood at #321 and #345 in Norway · Girls; by 1998 that had become #391 and #231.

Moved the opposite way to Annie

Karoline
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #151 to #214 while Karoline went from #387 to #223.
Oda
Between 1949 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #151 to #214 while Oda went from #351 to #87.
Angela
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Annie went from #112 to #33 while Angela went from #24 to #608.
Ann
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Annie went from #112 to #33 while Ann went from #4 to #443.

Moved the same way as Annie

Grete
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #180 to #332 and Grete from #28 to #484.
Kate
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #180 to #332 and Kate from #233 to #490.
Reidun
Between 1945 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #180 to #332 and Reidun from #17 to #425.
Monica
Between 1946 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Annie went from #192 to #301 and Monica from #315 to #542.

Meaning & Origin

A diminutive of Anne, itself from the Hebrew root 'hanan' ('grace, favour') via Latin Anna.

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

A diminutive of Anne, tracing to the Hebrew root 'hanan' via Latin Anna

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

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Where Annie is officially recorded

5 official registrars have recorded Annie, between 1945 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1945–2025	81	#151 in 1949
Republic of Ireland	1964–2025	62	#33 in 2025
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#108 in 2016
Northern Ireland	1997–2024	28	#8 in 2022
Scotland	2024	1	#87 in 2024

Its high point came 76 years earlier in Norway (1949) than in Republic of Ireland (2025).

Variants

No spelling variants or nicknames recorded yet.

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

No commonly used alternate spellings recorded.

Pronunciation

AN-ee/ˈæn.i/

Syllables: 2
Ease: easy

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Where Annie Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Annie in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

England and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of IrelandNorway

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Annie

Annie at a glance

What stands out in Annie's record

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Annie across 4 official records

Annie by decade in Norway · Girls

Annie appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Annie

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Annie

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Northern Ireland lists

Annie and the names beside it

Annie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Annie

Moved the opposite way to Annie

Moved the same way as Annie

Meaning & Origin

Where Annie is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Annie Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Annie at a glance

What stands out in Annie's record

Annie across 4 official records

Annie by decade in Norway · Girls

Annie appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Annie

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Annie

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Northern Ireland lists

Annie and the names beside it

Annie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Annie

Moved the opposite way to Annie

Moved the same way as Annie