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