Anny

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anny: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anny: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #79, and it stood at #449 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#79highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2013

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2013	#4050

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 56 of the 80 years from 1945 to 2024.

In 2013: #439 among girls in Norway, #4050 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #99 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2024
Highest recorded position: #79 among girls in Norway, in 1947 (recorded 1945–2024).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #449 among girls in Norway, in 2024.
Norway · Girls

Anny appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 56 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,090 births with the name.

Anny across 2 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.

Anny'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	#99 (1945)	#79 (1947)	#449 (2024)	56 of 80	1,090 (1945–2024)	75 (1947)
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#4050 (2013)	#4050 (2013)	4 of 9	14 (2005–2013)	5 (2013)

Anny 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 Anny in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	300	5 of 10	60
1950s	448	10 of 10	45
1960s	147	10 of 10	15
1970s	42	7 of 10	6
1980s	11	2 of 10	6
1990s	22	3 of 10	7
2000s	38	6 of 10	6
2010s	58	8 of 10	7
2020s	24	5 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 60 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1956 and 1957, when recorded births fell by 30, from 61 to 31.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Anny appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #79 in Norway in 1947.

Anny's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#449	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#493	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#471	4	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#387	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#474	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#501	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#441	7	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#469	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#383	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#469	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#439	8	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#459	7	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#401	10	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#474	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#545	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#382	10	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#580	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#528	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#442	7	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#487	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#394	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#480	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#558	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#587	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#556	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#591	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#536	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#492	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#415	8	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#435	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#434	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#352	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#528	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#341	9	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#328	10	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#279	13	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#216	18	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#236	15	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#182	20	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#161	25	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#166	24	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#177	21	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#176	23	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#141	31	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#93	61	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#125	40	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#100	55	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#104	50	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#105	49	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#92	61	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#100	57	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#114	48	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#92	64	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#79	75	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#101	60	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#99	53	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 56 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #79, first reached in 1947.

It held a top-100 place in 7 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 75 births, registered in Norway in 1947.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 60 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.

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.

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Anouk · #700, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Dolores · #80, 56y
Imelda · #80, 53y
Rosaleen · #80, 51y
Bartholomew · #81, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Esther · #79, 81y
Ludvik · #79, 39y
Natalia · #79, 78y
Oddbjørn · #79, 62y

Anny was ranked #79 in Norway · Girls in 1947. 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.

Anny 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anny without appearing here.

Anny moved ahead of

Wenche Compare
In 1995 they stood at #480 and #310 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #394 and #612.
Mette Compare
In 2009 they stood at #545 and #458 in Norway · Girls; by 2010 that had become #401 and #602.
Sissel Compare
In 2008 they stood at #580 and #473 in Norway · Girls; by 2009 that had become #474 and #620.
Turid Compare
In 2001 they stood at #487 and #481 in Norway · Girls; by 2002 that had become #442 and #588.

Moved ahead of Anny

Oda Compare
In 1985 they stood at #556 and #648 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #587 and #194.
Sophie Compare
In 1985 they stood at #556 and #598 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #587 and #242.
Live Compare
In 1967 they stood at #341 and #364 in Norway · Girls; by 1968 that had become #528 and #251.
Selma Compare
In 1976 they stood at #536 and #628 in Norway · Girls; by 1977 that had become #591 and #323.

Moved the opposite way to Anny

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 while Ada went from #229 to #16.
Alice Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 while Alice went from #292 to #153.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 while Elise went from #223 to #66.

Moved the same way as Anny

Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 and Anne from #1 to #150.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 and Åse from #25 to #128.
Astrid Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 and Astrid from #12 to #17.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Anny went from #99 to #449 and Bjørg from #6 to #388.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #79 in Norway in 1947. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Anny

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Anny across 2 official records

Anny by decade in Norway · Girls

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