Anabel Girl
How popular is Anabel?
#4,264 girl name in 2025
33 baby girls were named Anabel in the US in 2025, making it the 4264th most popular girl name.
Anabel popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #4,264 for girls (▼ 689 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 33 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-80% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,411 in 2015, #2,712 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (297 girls) |
| Highest rank | #633 in 1887 |
| First recorded | 1882 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anabel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Annabelle family of names ranked #299 for girls in 2025 (#298 the year before), with 1,092 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Annabelle | 891 | 82% |
| Annabel | 91 | 8% |
| Anabelle | 56 | 5% |
| Anabel | 33 | 3% |
| Annabell | 21 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Anabel is most popular
Babies named Anabel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Anabel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 55 | #633 |
| 1890s | 53 | #850 |
| 1900s | 87 | #965 |
| 1910s | 237 | #1,167 |
| 1920s | 272 | #1,206 |
| 1930s | 120 | #1,685 |
| 1940s | 70 | #2,736 |
| 1950s | 128 | #2,388 |
| 1960s | 310 | #1,715 |
| 1970s | 641 | #1,299 |
| 1980s | 1,409 | #793 |
| 1990s | 1,871 | #731 |
| 2000s | 2,290 | #951 |
| 2010s | 1,966 | #899 |
| 2020s | 271 | #2,712 |
Girl names about as popular as Anabel
Questions
- Is Anabel a boy or girl name?
- Anabel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Anabel were girls.
- How popular is the name Anabel?
- 33 baby girls were named Anabel in the US in 2025, making it the 4264th most popular girl name.
- When was Anabel most popular?
- Anabel peaked in 2014, when 297 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #633 in 1887.
- How many people are named Anabel?
- 9,815 babies have been named Anabel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,812 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 26.
- Where is Anabel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anabel was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.