Anne is the French form of the Latin name Anna, which developed from the Hebrew Channah meaning ‘favour, grace’. Anne was imported to England in the 13th century, but only became popular several centuries later.
Anne is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Anne 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, Anne ranks 532. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Anne. In the entire USA, approximately 304,673 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Anne. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Anne is the French form of the Latin name Anna, which developed from the Hebrew Channah meaning ‘favour, grace’. Anne was imported to England in the 13th century, but only became popular several centuries later.
In the Netherlands,... Anne is also known as a male name. In this case, its meaning is 'eagle', related to the name Arne.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Anne is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Anne for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Anne is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Anne is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 51 Anne easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1915.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anne was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 520 babies were named Anne in the USA in 2022, ranking it #523 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2010, when it was only ranked at #579 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 484 girls were named Anne.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Anne is one of them. However, Anne is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Massachusetts seem to particularly fancy this name – the 20,317 women called Anne who live here are 0,534% of all female residents and push their name up to #36, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Massachusetts.
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 four letters, the name Anne is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Anne 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 Anne, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Anne sounds like this:
