Anne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Ann (Hants); first attested Ralph de Anne 1200 P (Ha)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anne 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.
- NONorway1 in 98(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 34as Anna
- PLPoland1 in 36as 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 Anne 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 98 (inferred from the name graph)
3,948,650 named Ana, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ann in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden.
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)
French form of Anna, from Hebrew Hannah 'grace, favor'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anne is read(measured from records)
Anne is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
from Ann (Hants); first attested Ralph de Anne 1200 P (Ha)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
2. habitation name from Ann in Hants, which is so called from an old stream name, probably a Brit. cogn. of W on ash tree. Sir William de Anne, constable of Tickhill Castle in S Yorks, in 1315, was the ancestor of several landed and titled families, including the Annes of Burghwallis, the Charltons of Great Canfield, and the Barons Heneage.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- French13%
French form of Anna, from Hebrew Hannah 'grace, favor'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du hébreu Hannah, « grâce » ; fête le 26 juillet, sainte Anne, mère de la Vierge Marie.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du hébreu Hannah, « grâce »; sainte Anne, mère de la Vierge, fêtée le 26 juillet.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
De l’hébreu Hannah « grâce »; sainte Anne, invoquée pour la guérison.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anne 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 |
| NO Norway | #4 | 55,625 | 1 in 98 | 134K | Anne | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #4 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Ann | 212 |
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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anne of Denmarkb. 1574GBQueen consort of James VI of Scots, I of England (1574-1619)
- Anne Hydeb. 1637GBEnglish Royal
- Anne of Great Britainb. 1665GBQueen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)
- Anne Bancroftb. 1931USAmerican actress (1931–2005)
- Anne, Princess Royalb. 1950GBdaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Isabelle Huppertb. 1953FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (born 1953)
- Marine Le Penb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (born 1968)
- Jennifer Garnerb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Zara Tindallb. 1981GBnot in their usual nameBritish Olympic equestrian; daughter of Anne, Princess Royal
- Vanessa Hudgensb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 1988)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 124 sources across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 222K | #252 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 134K | #1 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 56K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 48K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47K | #585 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 24K | #1,229 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19K | #220 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 9.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 472 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 447 | #694 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 447 | #694 |
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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Anne come from?
- French form of Anna, from Hebrew Hannah 'grace, favor'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Anne?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Annie, Nanette and Nannie are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Anne a male or female name?
- Anne 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.
- What does the name Anne mean?
- In English, from Ann (Hants); first attested Ralph de Anne 1200 P (Ha)
- How common is the name Anne?
- In Norway, the national register counted 55,625 people named Anne in 2025, about 1 in 98 residents.
- How common is Anne compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Anne is the 395th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Anne 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.
- Where is Anne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anne is densest in Norway — about 1 in 98 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Anne?
- A machine transcription gives /æn/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anneThe 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, “Anne” — the 395th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.