Anne
Top 1000
About Anne
The name of the sainted mother of the Virgin Mary was among the top girls’ names for centuries, in both the original English Ann spelling and the French Anne. Both left the Top 100 around 1970 but Anne is still among the most classic names for girls, although others are more likely to choose the original Hannah, the Anna variation, or even Annabel or Annabella.
Anne was on a long slide from the early 1980s until about 2010, when its popularity in the US stabilized around the middle of the Top 1000.
Anne was the name of six queens of England, two of them wives of Henry VIII, as well as the name of the present Queen Elizabeth's only daughter plus French and Russian royalty. More recently, Mindy Kaling chose Anne for her second daughter.
Anne has too many distinguished namesakes to enumerate--but among them are Anne Hathaway, (both Shakespeare's wife and the contemporary actress), Anne of Green Gables, Anne Bronte, Anne Frank, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Pronounced AN.
As of October 2026, Anne ranked #619 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #52 in 1915, Nameberry popularity #289.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #554 | 559 | 312.9 |
| 2015 | #565 | 543 | 304.2 |
| 2016 | #554 | 562 | 317.2 |
| 2017 | #578 | 522 | 302.4 |
| 2018 | #601 | 506 | 297.5 |
| 2019 | #573 | 531 | 316.4 |
| 2020 | #626 | 463 | 286.4 |
| 2021 | #588 | 510 | 310.8 |
| 2022 | #573 | 522 | 318.3 |
| 2023 | #581 | 515 | 321 |
| 2024 | #649 | 450 | 277.7 |
| 2025 | #619 | 472 | 293.7 |
World rankings
Similar names
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- Nancy
- Katherine
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- Joanna
- Julia
- Sarah
- Susannah
- Susan
- Anna
- Margaret
- Martha
- Kate
- Rachel
- Amy
Anne on lists
Famous Annes
- Saint Anne
mother of the Virgin Mary
- Anne
Queen of Great Britain
- Anne of Bohemia
Queen consort of Richard II of England
- Anne Neville
Queen consort of Richard III of England
- Anne Boleyn
2nd Queen consort of Henry VIII of England
- Anne of Cleves
4th Queen consort of Henry VIII of England
- Anne of Denmark
Queen consort of James VI and I of England and Scotland
- Anne of Kiev
Queen consort of Henry I of France
- Anne
Duchess of Brittany, Queen consort of Charles VIII and Louis XII of France
- Anne of Austria (born Ana Maria Mauricia)
Queen consort of Louis XIII of France
- Anne
Marie Dagmar Ingrid of Denmark; Queen consort of Constantine II of Greece
- Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte Zita Marguerite of Bourbon
Parma, Queen consort of Michael I of Romania
- Anne of Bohemia and Hungary aka Anna Jagellonica
Queen consort of Ferdinand I of the Romans
- Anne of Austria
Queen consort of Sigismund III Vasa of Poland and Sweden
- Anne Hyde
Duchess of York, wife of future King James II of England; mother of Queen Anne
- Anne
Princess of England, daughter of Charles I
- Anne
Princess Royal & Princess of Orange, daughter of Britain's George II
- Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
Princess Royal, daughter of Britain's Elizabeth II
- Anne Suzuki
Japanese actress
- Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano)
American actress
- Anne Baxter
American actress
- Anne Bradstreet
first published poet in the U.S.
- Johanna "Anne" Mansfield Sullivan
American tutor of Helen Keller
- Anne Bonny
Irish pirate
- Anne Brontë
English novelist
- Anne Louise Dudek
American actress
- Anne of Austria
Landgravine of Thuringia
- Anne Francine
American actress
- Anne Lloyd Francis
American actress
- Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank
Dutch WWII diarist
- Anne Jacqueline Hathaway
American actress
- Anne Hathaway
wife of William Shakespeare
- Anne Bright Holton
American lawyer and judge
- Anne Hutchinson
American religious dissenter
- Anne Villiers
Countess of Morton
- Anne Maree Judkins
New Zealand race walker
- Anne W. Burrell
American celebrity chef
- Anne Viensouk Keothavong
Laotian,British tennis player
- Anne Elise Kornblut
American writer and journalist
- Anne Kremer
Luxembourgish tennis player
- Anne Meara
American actress and comedian
- Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
American author, wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh
- Anne Watanabe
Japanese model, daughter of actor Ken Watanabe
- (Morna) Anne Murray
Canadian pop singer
- Anne Klein (born Hannah Golofski)
American fashion designer
- Anne Provoost
Belgian novelist
- Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien)
American novelist
- Anne Sexton
American poet
- Anne Inez McCaffrey
Irish novelist
- Anne Jeffreys (born Annie Carmichael)
American actress
- Anne Charlotte McClain
American astronaut
- Anne Veski
Estonian pop singer
- Anne Geddes
New Zealand photographer
- Anne Elizabeth Darwin
daughter of naturalist Charles Darwin
- Anne Royall
first U.S. woman journalist
- Anne Kristine Stuart
American romance novelist
- Anne Graham Lotz
American Christian evangelist, daughter of Billy Graham
- Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts
American actress
- Anne de Zogheb
Lebanese model, wife of singer Paul Anka
- Anne Phyllis Tyler
American novelist
- Anne
Marie (Rose Nicholson), British singer and songwriter
- Anne Thérèse
Princess of Savoy
- Anne Charlotte
Princess of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont, Mons and Essen
- Anne Savile
Princess of Löwenstein,Wertheim,Freudenberg, English aviatrix
- Anne Marguerite Brigitte Marie
Princess of Orléans, Duchess of Calabria; daughter of Prince Henri
- Anne Ferelith Fenella Bowes
Lyon; Viscountess Anson; Princess George Valdemar of Denmark; cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
- Anne Carson
Canadian poet and translator
- Anne Elizabeth Gabrielle Edmonds
Australian comedian
- Anne Diamond
English journalist and television presenter
- Anne Jacqueline Hathaway
American actress
Anne in pop culture
- Anne Shirley
main character in L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables" series
- Anne Elliot
character in Jane Austen's "Persuasion"
- Anne Page
character in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
- Anne Patricia Howard Martin
character in movie "The Patriot"
- Anne Cahill
character in "The 39 Clues" series
- Anne Wheeler
character in "The Greatest Showman"
- Anne
character in video game "Style Savvy"
- Anne Steele
character on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Anne Manning
from the movie "Separate Lies"
- Anne MacMorrow
from movie "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep"
- Anne Juergens
character on TV's "Secret Life of the American Teenager"
- Anne Winslow
character on TV's "Requiem for Murder"
- Anne Sullivan
reoccurring character on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
- Anne Weying
character in Marvel Universe
- Anne
Marie Hoag, character in Marvel Universe
- Anne Kirrin
character in Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' series