Annaliese
Feminine · “grace”
Annaliese joins Anna to Liese — grace and God-is-my-oath — and the German habit of welding two names into one produced dozens like it.
How old is the name Annaliese?
Annaliese first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Annaliese alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 4,900 people named Annaliese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annaliese most popular?
Annaliese peaked in 2005, reaching #1078 nationally. Today it ranks #2064, 986 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From channah to Annaliese
The story of Annaliese
German naming built compound given names freely from the seventeenth century — Annaliese, Marianne, Karlheinz, Annegret — treating two names as one word. Annaliese is among the most enduring. It reached American use through German immigration and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
grace; my God is an oath
A German compound of Anna, from the Hebrew channah, 'grace', and Liese, a short form of Elisabeth, from the Hebrew Elisheva, 'my God is an oath'. Both halves are genuine and both meanings are settled. The compound is a documented German practice.
How the name formed
- channah
- Anna Liese
- Annaliese
Related forms: Anneliese · Annalise · Annelies
Pronouncing Annaliese
AN-uh-leez
Three syllables, stress on the first. German Anneliese is AH-nuh-lee-zuh with four.
Nicknames for Annaliese
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
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 2005220 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1078reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −11.7%91 in 2025, from 103
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.
Annaliese in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anneliese in German — spelling variant
- Annalise in English — spelling variant
- Annelies in Dutch — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Annalieses among us
people named Annaliese are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 17,662 born in 2025 was named Annaliese
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Randee test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Annaliese's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Randee climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Randee's path sketches the road Annaliese is walking now.
Annaliese 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 Annaliese is headed
Annaliese 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.
Annaliese beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Annaliese in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are genuine Hebrew names with settled meanings.
- Anna and Liese are two short forms, both with real records.
- It records a real and documented German naming practice.
- Anneliese is the standard German spelling.
- At least four spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- Three syllables make it moderately long for everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annalieses are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,900 people named Annaliese are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Annaliese in 2025?
- Annaliese ranks #2064 among US girl names in 2025, with 91 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Annaliese?
- About 1 in every 17,662 US girls born in 2025 was named Annaliese — 91 in all.
- Will my child share the name Annaliese with classmates?
- Annaliese will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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