Analee
Feminine · “grace”
Analee joins Ana to the plainest available -lee ending, and it is the shortest way to write a sound that also appears as Analeigh, Annalee and Anneli.
How old is the name Analee?
Analee first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Analee alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,100 people named Analee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Analee most popular?
Analee peaked in 2011, reaching #1758 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 2,022 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Analee
Ours, offered as ours. There is a genuinely inherited version of this sound: Finnish and Estonian Anneli joins Anne to Liisa, which is Elisabeth — two real names in one, made in Scandinavia rather than America. Analee is the American assembly of the same sound from Ana and an ending. Both are compounds; one has two parents and one has a parent and a suffix. It is worth knowing which is which.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace
Ana is documented: the Spanish form of Hannah, from a Hebrew word for grace. The -lee ending is a modern suffix. A separate Finnish and Estonian Anneli is a genuine compound of Anne and Liisa and is not the source of this spelling.
Pronouncing Analee
AN-uh-lee
Three syllables, first stressed. Some families say ah-nah-LEE.
Nicknames for Analee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 2013116 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1758reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −30.4%39 in 2025, from 56
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Analee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anneli in Finnish — related form
- Annalee in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Kansas.
Analees among us
people named Analee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Analee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Analee
- #3780
- Analee on the 2025 chart
- #734
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Analee went to 39 girls in 2025, but Annalee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 228, which makes it the 734th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,046 places above the chart.
- Annalee189
- Analee39
About 1 girl in 7,049 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 41,212 for Analee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trenace test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Analee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trenace climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trenace's path sketches the road Analee is walking now.
Analee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Analee is headed
Analee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Analee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Analee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ana and Lee are both complete names that stand on their own.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Seven letters and three syllables, manageable to write.
- Annalee, Analeigh and Analee are all in use and none is dominant.
- The stress is unsettled between the English and Spanish readings.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound, only for its front half.
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Frequently asked
- How many Analees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Analee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Analee?
- Analee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Annalee is the more common one — 189 births in 2025 against 39 for Analee.
- How popular is the name Analee in 2025?
- Analee ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Analee?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Analee — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Analee with classmates?
- Analee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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