Annabelle
The story
Annabelle is Anna joined to Belle, beautiful grace read plainly, and its record contains the second inverted shadow of these batches: like Damien, it met its horror franchise and kept climbing. A real vintage name, about 5,900 in the 1920s, it rested at midcentury, then rode the Bella era hard: 13,200 in the 2000s, and its biggest decade ever, 29,000, in the 2010s, the same decade a haunted doll wearing the name anchored a horror franchise from 2014 on; decade buckets point, they do not convict, and the curve never flinched. The cooling is now real, 6,200 so far this decade, stated plainly. Annie and Belle do the everyday work, as our nickname records note. In our records: about 67,400 girls to ten boys. The doll scared theaters; the nurseries, evidently, were not consulted.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Annabelle peaked in the 2010s.
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Popularity in Brazil
143 people · the #32,124 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 8
Among people named Annabelle living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 21 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Annabelle
Most people given the name Annabelle in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Annabelle deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Annabelle truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Annabelle fits with your family’s names and surname.
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