The name Annabella exists in many variations. It ultimately goes back to the Latin name Amabilis, meaning ‘lovable’.
Annabella is a female first name.
The name Annabella 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, Annabella ranks 434. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Annabella. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Annabella.
The name Annabella exists in many variations. It ultimately goes back to the Latin name Amabilis, meaning ‘lovable’.
The origin of Annabella... survived in the English word 'amiable', also based on Latin.
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 nine letters, the name Annabella is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Annabella 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 Annabella, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Nut
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Annabella
Annabella
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
N
A
B
E
L
L
A
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
A
B
E
L
L
A
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. Annabella sounds like this:
