Annalyn
Feminine · “grace”
Annalyn joins Anna — a Hebrew word for grace with three thousand years behind it — to the -lyn ending that American naming supplied in the twentieth century.
How old is the name Annalyn?
Annalyn first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Annalyn is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Annalyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annalyn most popular?
Annalyn peaked in 2017, reaching #2401 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 1,502 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Annalyn
Ours, offered as ours. Hannah's prayer in the first book of Samuel — silent, with her lips moving, so that the priest assumes she is drunk — is the passage the rabbis took as the model for how prayer should be said. Her name is the word for favor freely given. Annalyn puts a modern American ending behind it. The ending is a suffix and the front is one of the load-bearing names of western civilization.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace
Anna is documented: the Greek and Latin form of Hebrew Hannah, grace or favor. The -lyn ending is from Welsh llyn, a lake, by way of the surname Lynn, but functions here as a suffix with no meaning of its own.
Pronouncing Annalyn
AN-uh-lin
Three syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Annalyn
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
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 201475 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2401reached in 2017
- Change vs 2024
- +2.8%37 in 2025, from 36
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.
Annalyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Annalynn in English — spelling variant
- Hannah in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
Annalyns among us
people named Annalyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Annalyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Annalyn
- #3903
- Annalyn on the 2025 chart
- #837
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Annalyn went to 37 girls in 2025, but Annalynn, Analynn and Analyn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 123, which makes it the 837th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,066 places above the chart.
- Annalynn62
- Annalyn37
- Analynn16
- Analyn8
About 1 girl in 13,067 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Annalyn 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 Jearlean test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Annalyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jearlean climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jearlean's path sketches the road Annalyn is walking now.
Annalyn 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 Annalyn is headed
Annalyn is easing off slowly — about 16% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
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.
Annalyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Annalyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Anna and Lyn are both complete names in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- A genuinely old Hebrew word stands at the front of it.
- Annalyn, Annalynn and Annalynne are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close to Analeigh and Annalee, which are separate compounds.
- The -lyn ending carries no meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annalyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Annalyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Annalyn?
- Annalyn is one of 4 recorded spellings. Annalynn is the more common one — 62 births in 2025 against 37 for Annalyn.
- How popular is the name Annalyn in 2025?
- Annalyn ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Annalyn?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Annalyn — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Annalyn with classmates?
- Annalyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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