girl's name

Annelise

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 8
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 16,895

Scotland

#774

2016 births

Annelise is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 226 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2025, when 226 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 14,670 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1930.

Annelise over time

Births per decade in France, 1900s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2024, not a full ten years.

3,395
'00 '10 '20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Annelise by decade in France
Decade Births
1900s 20
1910s 30
1920s 25
1930s 45
1940s 245
1950s 650
1960s 860
1970s 1,980
1980s 3,395
1990s 1,525
2000s 695
2010s 225
2020s (to 2024) 60

How popular is Annelise?

In 2025, Annelise was given to 226 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Annelise is used

Scotland #774 4 in 2016
United States #1,074 226 in 2025
Canada #1,811 13 in 2024
England & Wales #1,978 15 in 2025
France as Anne-Lise #2,460 10 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Annelise is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Anne-Lise Anne-Lise is Annelise written with a hyphen, recorded mostly in France. 8,180

Names that peaked alongside Annelise

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Annelise also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Annelise over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Annelise

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Annelise — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Annelise

How popular is the name Annelise?

In 2025, Annelise was given to 226 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Annelise a girl's or a boy's name?

Annelise is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Annelise most popular?

Annelise peaked in 2025, when 226 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Annelise a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Annelise currently ranks #1,074 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.