Ann
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew name meaning ‘He has favoured me’; name of St Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 4th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 348(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.1K
- SESweden1 in 34as Anna
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ann itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #32 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 628 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 348 (inferred from the name graph)
3,948,650 named Ana, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anne in BR Brazil, PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew name meaning ‘He has favoured me’; name of St Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ann, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #395 | 3,948,650as Ana | 1 in 54 | 3.9M | Anne | 169 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,063,756as Anna | 1 in 36 | 1.1M | Anne | 5 |
| US United States | #11 | 512,954as Anna | 1 in 648 | 512K | Ann | 628 |
| SE Sweden | #60 | 302,994as Anna | 1 in 34 | 303K | Ann | 132 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 269,638as Anna | 1 in 40 | 270K | — | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 81,751as Ana | 1 in 52 | 82K | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | #4 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ann | 212 |
| IE Ireland | #6 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 348 | — | Ann | 163 |
3,948,650 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling ana. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant spelling of Anne. Ann was the more common of the two spellings in I2 the roth century, but is now losing ground to the form with final -e. Pet form: Annie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: variant spelling of ANNE , Ann was the more common of the two spellings in the 19th century, but is now losing ground to the form with final - e .
as a word
In gem-pro, first/third-person singular present active indicative of *unnaną
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, a female given name, an old Estonian short form of Anna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, first/third-person singular present indicative of unnan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Todd Lincolnb. 1818USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Alice Munrob. 1931CAnot in their usual nameCanadian writer (1931–2024)
- Deborah Harryb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie (born 1945)
- Priscilla Presleyb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and businesswoman
- Kylie Minogueb. 1968AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer and actress (born 1968)
- Kate Mossb. 1974GBnot in their usual nameEnglish model and businesswoman
- Stacy Fergusonb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, rapper and actress (born 1975)
- Jesse Janeb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1980–2024)
- Elisha Cuthbertb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Cheryl Coleb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer, dancer, and television presenter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 293K | #178 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 36K | #120 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 375 | #178 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 210 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 209 | #24,540 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 202 | #1,018 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 202 | #1,018 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 103 | #35,701 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 44 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 20 | #3,449 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Ann?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Anna and Anne are forms of the same name in other languages; Nancy, Annette and Annie are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Ann mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew name meaning ‘He has favoured me’; name of St Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Ann a male or female name?
- Ann is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Ann?
- A machine transcription gives /æn/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Ann?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,948,650 people named Ana in 2022, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Ann compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ann is the 395th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Ann have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 million people named Ana, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Ann?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/annThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ann” — the 395th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.