Name profile

Annette

French diminutive of Anne 1.

PronunciationFrench /a.nɛt/; English /ə.ˈnɛt/; German /a.ˈnɛ.tə/
Usage languagesDanish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish
US rank (2025)#1,443

Meaning and history

French diminutive of Anne, Annette has also been widely used in the English-speaking world and became popular in the United States in the late 1950s because of actress Annette Funicello (1942–2013).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 304 births, rank #874
2007: 321 births, rank #868
2008: 257 births, rank #1,020
2009: 232 births, rank #1,101
2010: 244 births, rank #1,025
20112011: 202 births, rank #1,189
2012: 213 births, rank #1,153
2013: 181 births, rank #1,292
2014: 184 births, rank #1,291
2015: 177 births, rank #1,337
20162016: 202 births, rank #1,217
2017: 197 births, rank #1,217
2018: 194 births, rank #1,214
2019: 212 births, rank #1,139
2020: 177 births, rank #1,264
20212021: 171 births, rank #1,317
2022: 171 births, rank #1,362
2023: 164 births, rank #1,373
2024: 176 births, rank #1,305
20252025: 149 births, rank #1,443

Annette rose from #874 to #869 for girls between 2006 and 2007. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 7,136 births.