Anna-Lena

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/annaːʔlena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Anna-Lena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 7.4K
  • USUnited States1 in 911K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Annalena in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anna-Lena 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.

Where Anna-Lena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#580≈11,000 est.≈1 in 7.4K5Anna-Lena147
SE Sweden#9227,6171 in 1.3K7.6KAnna-Lena34
BJ Benin#999≈980 est.≈1 in 13K—Anna-Lena4
AT Austria#902≈610 est.≈1 in 15K2KAnna-Lena47
US United States—3651 in 911K365Annalena84
FI Finland—3101 in 18K436Anna-Lena4

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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anna-Lena is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Annalena

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Finland, United States, Norway

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Annalena

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Annalena, Anna-Léna

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Annalena, Annaléna

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Sweden

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Анна-Лена, Annalena, Анналена

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Sweden

    Also written Annalena

  • Czech name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Annalena

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Annalena

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Annalena

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Anna-Lena Wästberg, b. 1927Lena Granhagen, b. 1938Anna-Lena Löfgren, b. 1944Anna-Lena Sörenson, b. 1954Anna-Lena Bergelin, b. 1959Anna-Lena Laurén, b. 1976Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, b. 1982Anna-Lena Frömming, b. 1995Anna-Lena Schwing, b. 1996

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)

InformalHallo Anna-Lena,Hi Anna-Lena, (English)

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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Anna-Lena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7.6K#475
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20086.8K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20096.8K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20106.8K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20116.8K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20126.8K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20136.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20146.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20156.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20166.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20026.6K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20036.6K—

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

How do you pronounce Anna-Lena?
A machine transcription gives /annaːʔlena/ (IPA) for German.
Is Anna-Lena a male or female name?
Anna-Lena 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 Anna-Lena have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Anna-Lena in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Anna-Lena.
Where is Anna-Lena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anna-Lena is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Anna-Lena?
In Sweden, the national register counted 7,617 people named Anna-Lena, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Anna-Lena compared with other names?
In Germany, Anna-Lena is the 580th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Anna-Lena” — the 580th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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