Annette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French diminutive of Anne; established in Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ənɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Annette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 10th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 367(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 892
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.1K
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 Annette 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #586 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 533 (measured from records)
- 1 in 367 (inferred from the name graph)
126,912 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אנט in QA Qatar.
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 diminutive of Anne; established in Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Annette 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #265 | 126,912 | 1 in 2.6K | 127K | Annette | 533 |
| DE Germany | #194 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 892 | — | Annette | 235 |
| GB United Kingdom | #267 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 3 | Annette | 264 |
| SE Sweden | #216 | 29,757as Anette | 1 in 343 | 30K | Annette | 87 |
| AU Australia | #225 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 79 | Annette | 223 |
| DK Denmark | #76 | 15,984 | 1 in 367 | 16K | Annette | 153 |
| NO Norway | #417 | 8,410as Anette | 1 in 650 | 32K | Annette | 78 |
| QA Qatar | #66 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 903 | — | אנט | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | #10 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Annette | 20 |
126,912 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Annette 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.
_ French pet form of Anne, now also now also used in the English-speaking world. widely used in the English-speaking world. Antonia ° Latin feminine form of Anthony, unaltered since classical times, when it was a common Roman feminine family name. Pet form: Toni.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
The French diminutive of Anne which seems to be established in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, a diminutive of the female given name Anne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Diminutif français d’Anne/Anna, « grâce ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Annette (m.fl. former) är ett franskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till → Anna. Namnet började användas som officiellt namn i södra Sverige under 1800-talets f örsta hälft och spreds så vidare norrut, men blev inte riktigt vanligt förrän efter andra världskriget. I den rikssvenska almanackan 9 september och i den finlandssvenska 9 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoffb. 1797DEGerman composer and writer (1797–1848)
- Annette Kellermanb. 1886AUAustralian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer (1887–1975)
- Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burmab. 1901GBnot in their usual nameBritish aristocrat (1901-1960)
- Annette Vadimb. 1936DKDanish actress (1936-2005)
- Annette Messagerb. 1943FRFrench artist (born 1943)
- Annette O'Tooleb. 1952USAmerican actress (born 1952)
- Annette Havenb. 1954USAmerican pornographic actress and erotic dancer
- Annette Beningb. 1958USAmerican actress (born 1958)
- Peggy Whitsonb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut
- Sandra Bullockb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and film producer
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 96 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 127K | #443 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16K | #34 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11K | #384 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8.8K | #449 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 6.9K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 2.4K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 149 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 110 | #443 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1974 | 79 | #99 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1978 | 45 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 6 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Annette mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive of Anne; established in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Annette a male or female name?
- Annette 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.
- In which country does Annette have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 127 thousand people named Annette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annette.
- Where is Annette most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Annette is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 367 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Annette?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Nancy and Anna are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ann.
- How do you pronounce Annette?
- A machine transcription gives /ənɛt/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Annette?
- In the United States, the national register counted 126,912 people named Annette in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Annette compared with other names?
- In the United States, Annette is the 265th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/annetteThe 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, “Annette” — the 265th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.