Annie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Originally a nickname from Anne; also an independent name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Annie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 780(measured from records)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 1.2K
- CNChina≈1 in 1.5K
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 Annie 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #775 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 681 (inferred from the name graph)
≈920,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anni in FI Finland.
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)
English diminutive of Anne/Anna, from Hebrew Hannah 'grace'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Annie is read(measured from records)
Annie 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.
- English65%
Originally a nickname from Anne; also an independent name
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A diminutive of the female given name Ann. Also, a popular given name in the 19th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French19%
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Annie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈920,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Annie | 71 |
| US United States | #340 | 115,909 | 1 in 2.9K | 116K | Annie | 558 |
| FR France | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 681 | 210K | — | 10 |
| PH Philippines | #515 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Annie | 118 |
| BR Brazil | — | 34,230as Anny | 1 in 6.2K | 34K | — | 5 |
| HU Hungary | — | 21,727as Áron | 1 in 450 | 22K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | #159 | 19,870as Anni | 1 in 280 | 30K | Anni | 100 |
| ZM Zambia | #119 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Annie | 28 |
| SE Sweden | #269 | 13,073 | 1 in 780 | 13K | Annie | 88 |
| DK Denmark | #291 | 7,484as Anni | 1 in 784 | 7.5K | Annie | 102 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); 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)
Annie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Originally a pet form of Anne; used in Ireland to anglicise Eithne (Ethna).
as a nameIrish first names
Originally this was a pet form of Anne but it is now used as a separate name. In Ireland it was employed to anglicise the native name Ethna (Irish Eithne).
as a nameIrish first names
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)
- Annie Besantb. 1847GBBritish socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)
- Annie Oakleyb. 1860USAmerican exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
- Annie Jump Cannonb. 1863USAmerican astronomer (1863-1941)
- Annie Girardotb. 1931FRFrench actress (1931-2011)
- Annie Proulxb. 1935USAmerican novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
- Annie Ernauxb. 1940FRFrench writer (born 1940)
- Annie Leibovitzb. 1949USAmerican photographer (born 1949)
- Annie Goldenb. 1951USAmerican actress and singer
- Annie Pottsb. 1952USAmerican actress
- Annie Werschingb. 1977USAmerican actress (1977–2023)
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 109 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 210K | #1,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 116K | #487 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13K | #324 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 5.8K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.7K | #167 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #5,060 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,883 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 794 | #895 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 446 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 283 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 are other forms of the name Annie?
- 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 and Anne.
- Where does the name Annie come from?
- English diminutive of Anne/Anna, from Hebrew Hannah 'grace'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Annie a male or female name?
- Annie 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 Annie mean?
- In English, Originally a nickname from Anne; also an independent name
- How common is the name Annie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115,909 people named Annie in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Annie compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Annie is the 119th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Annie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 921 thousand people named Annie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annie.
- How do you pronounce Annie?
- A machine transcription gives /æni/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Annie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/annieThe 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, “Annie” — the 119th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.