Annett
Feminine · “Grace”
Annett is a standard German spelling and not a shortened Annette. It is written that way in Germany, where a final unstressed e would be pronounced and is therefore not wanted, and it arrives in American records with families rather than with invention.
How old is the name Annett?
Annett first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Annett alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 900 people named Annett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annett most popular?
Annett peaked in 1938, reaching #1505 nationally. See the whole 1938 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hannah to Annett
The story of Annett
The mother of Mary is named only in a book that never got into the Bible. Everything anyone knows about Anne comes from a second-century text usually called the Protoevangelium of James: her childlessness, her husband Joachim, the angel, the birth, the child presented at the temple. The church declined to treat the book as scripture and then celebrated almost everything in it anyway, so a figure with no biblical existence acquired feast days, patronages, cathedrals and a place in the standard iconography of the Virgin's childhood. Whole cycles of medieval painting illustrate a text that was officially not there.
Meaning
Grace
The Hebrew Hannah, favor or grace, through the Latin Anna and the French diminutive ending. The diminutive was originally affectionate rather than formal and became a name in its own right, which is the usual career of an ending like this one.
How the name formed
- Hannah
- Anna
- Annette
- Annett
Related forms: Annett · Annette
Pronouncing Annett
an-ET
Two syllables with the stress at the back. German puts more weight on the first than English does, so the name sounds noticeably flatter in its home country.
Nicknames for Annett
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 196040 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1505reached in 1938
- Change vs 2010
- −28.6%5 in 2024, from 7
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.
Annett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Annett in German — same name
- Annette in French — same name
Annetts among us
people named Annett are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Annett sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a standard German spelling rather than an American variant.
- Two short forms in two quite different registers.
- Final stress gives the name a clean finish and makes it carry.
- Annette is far commoner in America and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The missing e reads as an error rather than a choice.
- It is firmly dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annetts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Annett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Annett in 2025?
- Annett is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Annett with classmates?
- Annett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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