girls:
65.7k births since 1880
#488 (91st percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2009
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
65.7k births since 1880
#907 (88th percentile)
The name Annabelle is the #907 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,730 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #488 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 65,720 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2009.
Annabelle has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2009 for boys).
The name Annabelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Annabelle reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 94.2% percentile (ranked #57) with 2,230 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 2,230 births per million (ranked 94.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Annabelle ranks #321 for girls (66.2% percentile) with 517 births per million, which is 23.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Annabelle reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #900) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Annabelle".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Annabelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.8% confident that Annabelle is pronounced as A-nuh-BEHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-behl, at 23.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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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