Meaning and history
Ann is the English and Manx form of Anne. Both spellings have existed in English since the late Middle Ages, though Ann is now less popular than Anne, and both trail related Anna and Hannah.
20062006: 388 births, rank #723
2007: 368 births, rank #782
2008: 344 births, rank #825
2009: 287 births, rank #930
2010: 286 births, rank #913
20112011: 256 births, rank #992
2012: 268 births, rank #949
2013: 280 births, rank #912
2014: 286 births, rank #944
2015: 307 births, rank #897
20162016: 265 births, rank #996
2017: 257 births, rank #1,009
2018: 269 births, rank #982
2019: 264 births, rank #978
2020: 221 births, rank #1,105
20212021: 224 births, rank #1,103
2022: 227 births, rank #1,098
2023: 231 births, rank #1,073
2024: 213 births, rank #1,135
20252025: 225 births, rank #1,076
Ann rose from #982 to #979 for girls between 2018 and 2019. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 9,040 births.