Annie Girl
How popular is Annie?
#182 girl name in 2025
1,690 baby girls were named Annie in the US in 2025, making it the 182nd most popular girl name.
Annie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #182 for girls (▲ 10 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,690 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+67% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #323 in 2015, #289 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1922 (7,476 girls) |
| Highest rank | #8 in 1881 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Annie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Annie family of names ranked #184 for girls in 2025 (#192 the year before), with 1,840 babies in all.
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 Annie is most popular
Babies named Annie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 2.7 per 1,000 (125 girls)
- Utah: 2.6 per 1,000 (216 girls)
- Alabama: 2.5 per 1,000 (235 girls)
- Louisiana: 2.4 per 1,000 (213 girls)
- Maine: 2.3 per 1,000 (35 girls)
Annie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17,027 | #8 |
| 1890s | 23,122 | #13 |
| 1900s | 27,748 | #11 |
| 1910s | 52,301 | #19 |
| 1920s | 69,468 | #30 |
| 1930s | 48,946 | #37 |
| 1940s | 38,714 | #56 |
| 1950s | 23,682 | #106 |
| 1960s | 9,652 | #221 |
| 1970s | 5,418 | #269 |
| 1980s | 8,262 | #246 |
| 1990s | 8,614 | #289 |
| 2000s | 8,861 | #306 |
| 2010s | 9,867 | #286 |
| 2020s | 8,571 | #182 |
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Questions
- Is Annie a boy or girl name?
- Annie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Annie were girls.
- How popular is the name Annie?
- 1,690 baby girls were named Annie in the US in 2025, making it the 182nd most popular girl name.
- When was Annie most popular?
- Annie peaked in 1922, when 7,476 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #8 in 1881.
- How many people are named Annie?
- 362,180 babies have been named Annie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 116,650 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 67.
- Where is Annie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Annie was most common in Mississippi, at 2.7 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.