girls:
14.8k births since 1880
#1261 (78th percentile)
overall:
14.8k births since 1880
#2162 (72nd percentile)
The name Annabel is the #2,162 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,750 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,261 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 14,750 births since 1880.
Annabel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Annabel reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 57.1% percentile (ranked #415) with 366 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 366 births per million (ranked 57.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Annabel ranks #840 for girls (11.3% percentile) with 64 births per million, which is 17.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Annabel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Annabel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.5% confident that Annabel is pronounced as A-nuh-behl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-BEHL, at 43.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 EH0 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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