girls:
1k births since 1880
#4679 (18th percentile)
boys:
42 births since 2007
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1880
#6660 (14th percentile)
The name Anner is the #6,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,079 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 13.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,679 (18.1% percentile) for all time with 1,037 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 2007.
Anner has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2007 for boys). Birth data for Anner is available in 82 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (76 years for girls and 6 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 Anner has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Anner were girls. Interestingly, until around 2007, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1880 to 2006), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2007 to 2023).
For girls, Anner reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #581) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 102 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
For boys, Anner reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #920) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Anner ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 90.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anner".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Anner. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Anner is pronounced as A-ner, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-ner, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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