Anneli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anneli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 49th most common given name. In Swedish, recorded as a female given name borrowed from German.
- FIFinland1 in 49(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 404
- EEEstonia≈1 in 643
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 Anneli 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
112,605 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Anneli har antagits ursprungligen vara en smekform till Anne-Louise och liknande kvinnonamn. Snarast är det en förkortad form av det tyska Anneliese eller en smekform till → Anna, använd i Sverige redan under 1800-talet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 21 april och i den finlandssvenska 9 december.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anneli is read(measured from records)
Anneli is one spelling over 5 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.
- Finnish36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anneli in Finnish.
- Swedish18%
Anneli har antagits ursprungligen vara en smekform till Anne-Louise och liknande kvinnonamn. Snarast är det en förkortad form av det tyska Anneliese eller en smekform till → Anna, använd i Sverige redan under 1800-talet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 21 april och i den finlandssvenska 9 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
a female given name borrowed from German
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anneli in English.
- German8.0%
- Estonian6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anneli in Estonian.
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)
Anneli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #196 | 112,605 | 1 in 49 | 148K | Anneli | 73 |
| SE Sweden | #99 | 25,270 | 1 in 404 | 25K | Anneli | 90 |
| EE Estonia | #49 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 643 | 3.4K | Anneli | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,072as Annelie | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Anneli | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Anneli | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 640 | 1 in 8.5K | 2.3K | Anneli | 42 |
112,605 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Anneli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scandinavian: shortened form of the originally German given name ANNELIESE .
as a word
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)
- Anneli Saulib. 1932FIFinnish actress (1932-2022)
- Tarja Cronbergb. 1943FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Kaija Saariahob. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish composer (1952–2023)
- Anneli Alhankob. 1953COSwedish ballet dancer and actress
- Anneli Jäätteenmäkib. 1955FIFinnish politician
- Heidi Hautalab. 1955FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Anneli Dreckerb. 1969NONorwegian singer and actress
- Pandorab. 1970SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer, recording artist, musician
- Paula Vesalab. 1981FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter and actress
- Laura Lepistöb. 1988FInot in their usual nameFinnish figure skater
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 148K | #4 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 113K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25K | #171 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 15K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3.4K | #26 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3.4K | #23 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.3K | #992 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 640 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 637 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2021 | 636 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2020 | 636 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 does the name Anneli mean?
- In Swedish, a female given name borrowed from German
- Is Anneli a male or female name?
- Anneli 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 are other forms of the name Anneli?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Niina is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Anneli have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Anneli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anneli.
- Where is Anneli most common?
- Anneli is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Anneli?
- In Finland, the national register counted 112,605 people named Anneli, about 1 in 49 residents.
- How common is Anneli compared with other names?
- In Finland, Anneli is the 196th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anneliThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Anneli” — the 196th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.