A diminutive of Anna, Annie goes back to the Hebrew name ‘Channah’ meaning ‘favour, grace’.
Annie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Annie 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, Annie ranks 276. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Annie. In the entire USA, approximately 284,090 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Annie. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
A diminutive of Anna, Annie goes back to the Hebrew name ‘Channah’ meaning ‘favour, grace’.
In the early 20th century,.. the name Annie was also rarely given to boys.
Annie is a very special girls' name - although the peak of its popularity dates back more than 100 years, it belongs to the exclusive circle of only 432 girls names that haven been given in each of the 143 years for which official name statistics in the USA are available. The most popular was Annie in 1881 - ranking #8 it even made it into the top 10 of the most popular girls names in our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Annie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,408 young parents chose the name Annie for their newborn child in 2022, placing it at number 197 in our ranking of the most popular girls names - in other words, 196 names were given more frequently to girls in 2022. However, the rarest use of the name was in 1970 with only 499 babies given that name, which puts it at rank 428 in our SmartGenius first name statistics.
Annie is one of the most common names in the U.S. – in all states combined, 283,437 women would currently turn around if you called out ANNIE really loud. Across all states and age groups, this lands Annie on position 127 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top female names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above. With so many women named Annie, it’s no surprise that the name is widely used in every single state in the U.S., but would you have guessed that it’s especially popular in Mississippi? Here, 1,38% of all female residents bear the name Annie – that is a total of 26,649 women with this popular name and no other state has as many women named Annie relative to its population. But that’s not all the popularity: in Mississippi Annie belongs to the top 10 of all womens names – the 26,649 elevate their name up to place #2 in the SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names for Mississippi.
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 five letters, the name Annie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Annie 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 Annie, 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. Annie sounds like this:
