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Anner

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Anner is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 558th, in 1884.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192032 births
Best rank
#558in 1884
Since 1880
1,085people given the name
Babies named Anner, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,037 girls have been named Anner in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 32 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1921, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 48 boys have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Anner
1880s68
1890s101
1900s118
1910s191
1920s220
1930s158
1940s111
1950s58
1960s12

In 1920, its biggest year

Anner was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.

Names that rose and fell with Anner

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.