Anabelle

girls:

8.8k births since 1915

#1734 (70th percentile)

overall:

8.8k births since 1915

#2882 (63rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Anabelle is the #2,882 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,798 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 62.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,734 (69.7% percentile) for all time with 8,798 births since 1915.

Anabelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Anabelle is available in 75 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023. 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.

For girls, Anabelle reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 56.3% percentile (ranked #407) with 344 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 351 births per million (ranked 55.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Anabelle ranks #883 for girls (6.8% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anabelle".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
8,798
Peak Births
686
Peak Year
2013
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
56.3%
Current Percentile
6.8%
Peak Rank
#407
Current Rank
#883
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Anabelle

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Anabelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.2% confident that Anabelle is pronounced as A-nuh-BEHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-behl, at 22.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.

a-nuh-BEHL (3 syllables)
22.6% confidence
AE0 N AH0 B EH1 L
uh-NUH-buhl (3 syllables)
4.8% confidence
AH0 N AH1 B AH0 L
uh-NUH-behl (3 syllables)
4.8% confidence
AH0 N AH1 B EH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N AH0 B EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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