Analiese
Feminine · “Hebrew Hannah”
Anna is the female counterpart of John: the most widely borne woman's name in Europe, and the one that combines with everything. Anneliese, Annemarie, Marianne, Roseanne and Julianne are all built on it.
How old is the name Analiese?
Analiese first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Analiese alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,600 people named Analiese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Analiese most popular?
Analiese peaked in 2005, reaching #1803 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 9,114 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hannah to Analiese
The story of Analiese
Anna descends from Hannah, the mother of Samuel, and reached Europe through the Greek of the New Testament and the tradition naming the mother of Mary. It became the most widespread female name on the continent, and unlike most names it combines: German makes Anneliese, Annemarie, Annegret and Annekathrin; French makes Marianne and Julianne; English makes Roseanna, Julianna and Leanne. The second element here is Liese, one of the very large family of short forms of Elisabeth, which means the compound joins the two most common women's names in Europe. American parents took it as a single unit in the twentieth century, usually without the German spelling, which is why Analiese, Annalise and Annaliese all appear.
Meaning
Hebrew Hannah, favor or grace
Analiese is an American spelling of German Anneliese, a compound of Anna, from Hebrew Hannah, favor, and Liese, a German short form of Elisabeth. The peak is 2005.
How the name formed
- Hannah
- Anna
- Anneliese
- Analiese
Related forms: Anneliese · Annalise · Annelies
Pronouncing Analiese
ah-nuh-LEESE
Three or four syllables depending on speed, stress on the last. German says AH-nuh-lee-zuh with four and a final vowel.
Nicknames for Analiese
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 2006110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1803reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −46.7%8 in 2025, from 15
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.
Analiese in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anneliese in German — spelling variant
- Annalise in English — spelling variant
- Annelies in Dutch — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Analieses among us
people named Analiese are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Analiese
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Analiese
- #10917
- Analiese on the 2025 chart
- #861
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Analiese went to 8 girls in 2025, but Annaliese is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 99, which makes it the 861st most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,056 places above the chart.
- Annaliese91
- Analiese8
About 1 girl in 16,235 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Analiese 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 Nelida test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Analiese's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nelida climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nelida's path sketches the road Analiese is walking now.
Analiese 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
Analiese beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Analiese in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Anna and Liese are two complete names inside one.
- Both halves are among the most widely used names in Europe.
- Four syllables with a clear final stress.
- Several spellings compete and Anneliese is the German standard.
- Four syllables is long before a surname.
- The 2005 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Analieses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Analiese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Analiese?
- Analiese is one of 2 recorded spellings. Annaliese is the more common one — 91 births in 2025 against 8 for Analiese.
- How popular is the name Analiese in 2025?
- Analiese ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Analiese?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Analiese — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Analiese with classmates?
- Analiese will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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