Anne is a girl's name of German origin. Its meaning is not recorded in the standard references we check — we would rather tell you that plainly than guess. In 2024 it was given to 450 girls in the United States.
Anne belongs to the German and French tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Anne first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #52 in 1915, and in 2024 450 babies received the name — 324,648 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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The meaning of Anne is not recorded in the standard references we check. Rather than repeat an unsourced claim, we leave it open — its German origin is documented, but its exact meaning is not.
Anne is a girl name. In 2024, 450 babies received the name in the US.
Anne comes from the German and French tradition.
Anne first appears in US records in 1880. Its best-ever ranking was #52 in 1915, and 450 babies were given the name in 2024.
Anne is pronounced /æn/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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