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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Annabel: Scottish variation of Amabel Meaning of Annabel: "loving" Annabel's Popularity in 2012: #519
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Annabel is a spirited name that embodies quirky British gentility, and is gaining increading favor in the US in the wake of the mega-popular Isabel. Appearing in Scotland as early as the twelfth century, where it was a royal name,it also recalls the romantic Edgar Allan Poe poem Annabel Lee, written upon the death of his young wife, Virginia.

In the Swinging Sixties, Annabel was in the thick of things as the name of London's trendiest disco and nightclub, named for the wife of the owner.