Ann
Ann is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 211 births. Its best rank was 28th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19579,040 births
- Best rank
- #28in 1936
- Since 1880
- 471,397people given the name
The story in the numbers
470,033 girls have been named Ann in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 9,040 births — 0.44% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 211 births in 2024, against 9,040 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 139 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 78 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,364 boys have also been given it, 0.29% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ann | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,104 | |
| 1890s | 4,688 | |
| 1900s | 9,932 | |
| 1910s | 39,506 | |
| 1920s | 49,810 | |
| 1930s | 64,060 | |
| 1940s | 76,797 | |
| 1950s | 87,046 | |
| 1960s | 72,082 | |
| 1970s | 32,031 | |
| 1980s | 15,929 | |
| 1990s | 7,897 | |
| 2000s | 4,300 | |
| 2010s | 2,737 | |
| 2020s | 1,114 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Ann was the 44th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Ann
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Robbiepeak 1957
- Edwinapeak 1943
- Sylviapeak 1937
- Jeanettepeak 1939
- Vonniepeak 1959
- Kathernpeak 1954
- Lorettapeak 1938
- Jonniepeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.