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Anne
Pronounced /æn/
Rank in 2024
#652
Born in 2024
450
Peak year
1959 · #82
Origin
French, Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 450 girls were named Anne, about 1 in every 3,585.
- It peaked in 1959 with 5,745 babies, ranked #82.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 324,648 girls have been named Anne since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Anne per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.4Greatest1901–27
- 2.6Silent1928–45
- 2.7Boomers1946–64
- 1.9Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 69,285 babies, 3.39 per 1,000. Silent: 53,995 babies, 2.61 per 1,000. Boomers: 96,051 babies, 2.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 48,983 babies, 1.92 per 1,000. Millennials: 30,244 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,864 babies, 0.44 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,255 babies, 0.31 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From French Anne (“Ann”), from Late Latin Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English. Very infrequently from Estonian abbreviation of Anna instead. Doublet of Ann, Ana, Anna, and Hannah. Compare John.
- A female given name from French.
- (very rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages, of mainly French and Frisian usage, see Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
- Origin
- French, Germanic
- Say it
- /æn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Anne, CC BY-SA 4.0.