It means ‘favor’ or ‘grace’: Ann is the English form of French Anne. Both names are popular in English-speaking countries since the Middle Ages. They derived via Latin Anna from the Hebrew name Channah.
Ann is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Ann isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Ann ranks 926. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Ann. In total, there are currently 447,810 people – children, adults and seniors – named Ann living in the United States, which is approximately 0.13 % of the entire population.
It means ‘favor’ or ‘grace’: Ann is the English form of French Anne. Both names are popular in English-speaking countries since the Middle Ages. They derived via Latin Anna from the Hebrew name Channah.
Ann has lost much... of its popularity since the 1980s. Before that, it was in the top 50 for several decades.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Ann is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Ann for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Ann is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Ann is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 28 Ann easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1936.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ann was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 227 babies were named Ann in the USA in 2022, ranking it #985 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2020, when it was only ranked at #1,006 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 220 girls were named Ann.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Ann. Because: There are women and girls named Ann in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Ann is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Massachusetts, where Ann ranks on place 23. The greatest chance of meeting Ann, however, is in Rhode Island, where one in 145 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 344 women and girls and in Nevada, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,204 women and girls for their name before you once get Ann as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With only three letters, the name Ann is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Ann and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ann, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ann
Ann
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ann sounds like this:
