girls:
9.7k births since 1882
#1625 (72nd percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1982
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1882
#2714 (65th percentile)
The name Anabel is the #2,714 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,738 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 64.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,625 (71.6% percentile) for all time with 9,703 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1982.
Anabel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1982 for boys). Birth data for Anabel is available in 136 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Anabel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Anabel reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 32.3% percentile (ranked #576) with 140 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 152 births per million (ranked 29.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Anabel ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 10.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Anabel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 5 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anabel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Anabel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Anabel is pronounced as A-nuh-BEHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-behl, at 35.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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