Anamarie
Feminine · “Hebrew Channah with Miriam”
In Spanish a double name is one name. A woman called Ana Maria is not Ana, and calling her that is a mistake rather than a shortening: the two words function as a single unit, and the same is true of Jose Luis, Maria Jose and Juan Carlos. English has nothing like it, which is why English speakers get it wrong constantly.
How old is the name Anamarie?
Anamarie first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Anamarie alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,300 people named Anamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anamarie most popular?
Anamarie peaked in 1984, reaching #2915 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 5,945 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Channah to Anamarie
The story of Anamarie
Spanish double names are compound units and the grammar of address treats them as such. A person registered as Ana Maria is called Ana Maria by everyone, and a shortened form, if there is one, is usually a fusion rather than a truncation: Anamari, Marijose, Josemi. The same holds for Maria Jose, Juan Carlos, Jose Luis and Maria Teresa. The convention is strong enough that dropping half of a double name reads as either intimacy or error, and Spanish speakers moving to English-speaking countries frequently find their names split by institutions that assume the second word is a middle name and can therefore be discarded. American records do exactly that, which is why so many Spanish double names appear in the data as single words: families write them together specifically to stop the second half being thrown away.
Meaning
Hebrew Channah with Miriam
Ana is the Spanish form of Anna, from Hebrew channah, favor or grace. Maria is from Miriam, whose meaning is genuinely unknown. Ana Maria is among the most common double names in the Spanish-speaking world; Anamarie writes it as one word with a French ending on the second element. It peaks in the American data in 1984.
How the name formed
- Channah
- Ana
- Anamarie
Related forms: Ana Maria · Annamaria · Annemarie
Pronouncing Anamarie
AN-uh-muh-ree
Four syllables, stress on the first with a secondary stress on the last. Spanish says ah-nah-mah-REE-ah with five and the stress at the end. The -marie ending is French rather than Spanish.
Nicknames for Anamarie
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
- 1948
- Most girls named
- 201546 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2915reached in 1984
- Change vs 2024
- +10.0%11 in 2025, from 10
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.
Anamarie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ana Maria in Spanish — same name
- Annamaria in Italian — same name
- Annemarie in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Anamaries among us
people named Anamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Anamarie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anamarie
- #8860
- Anamarie on the 2025 chart
- #909
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anamarie went to 11 girls in 2025, but Annamarie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 51, which makes it the 909th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,951 places above the chart.
- Annamarie40
- Anamarie11
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Anamarie 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 Lynnmarie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anamarie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lynnmarie climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lynnmarie's path sketches the road Anamarie is walking now.
Anamarie 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
Anamarie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anamarie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both elements are among the most used names in the world.
- Written as one word it survives American records intact.
- It is recognized across Spanish, Italian and German usage.
- Institutions will split it or drop half of it.
- The -marie ending is French where the rest is Spanish.
- Four syllables is long for everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anamaries are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Anamarie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anamarie?
- Anamarie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Annamarie is the more common one — 40 births in 2025 against 11 for Anamarie.
- How popular is the name Anamarie in 2025?
- Anamarie ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anamarie?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Anamarie — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anamarie with classmates?
- Anamarie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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