Anne

French variation of English Ann and Hebrew Hannah
"grace"

Anne Origin and Meaning

The name Anne is a girl's name of Hebrew, French, English origin meaning "grace".

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.

# 581 in the US

Anne Rank in US Top 1000

# 379 on Nameberry

Anne Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Anne Popularity

Famous People Named Anne

  • 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 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