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Girl's name · #1076 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Ann is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1936, when it ranked #28. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 470,000 girls since 1880, ranked #1076 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
In recent years, Ann ran 8–15× its national rate in Mississippi and Alabama.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 23 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#447 in Ireland (2025) · #810 in Scotland (2025) · #1,522 in Sweden (2025) · #2,020 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,751 in Canada (2024).
Among 2,368 notable people named Ann:
Artists & writers appear 1.48× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ann Radcliffe, English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel (1764–1823).
Together with its spelling variant Anne (#619), Ann would rank around #443 with about 700 births last year — the newborns split about 68/32 between Anne and Ann.
About 1,500 girls a year are given Annie as their full name and 280 Nancy.
Similar names: Ani · Barbara · Anne · Sharon · Susan · Anita
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