Annice
Feminine · “chaste”
This is not a form of Anne. Annis and Annice are medieval English forms of Agnes — the g dropped out in speech, the s softened, and the result was the ordinary way the name was said in England for several centuries. The resemblance to Anne is a coincidence that has fooled everybody since.
How old is the name Annice?
Annice first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Annice alive today was born around 1939, making them about 86 years old. About 800 people named Annice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Annice most popular?
Annice peaked in 1884, reaching #851 nationally. See the whole 1884 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Hagne to Annice
The story of Annice
The saint's eve had a folk custom attached to it that lasted for centuries. A girl who went to bed fasting on the night before the feast, without looking behind her, was supposed to dream of the man she would marry — and there were elaborate variations involving pins, rosemary and eating a salted egg. It appears in almanacs, in collections of superstitions and eventually in a very long poem by Keats built entirely around the belief. Whether anybody ever really did it is another matter; what is documented is that a great many people wrote it down.
Meaning
chaste, holy
From a Greek adjective meaning pure or holy. The name has nothing to do with Anne, which is Hebrew and means grace, and the two have been confused for so long that most sources now list this under the wrong parent.
How the name formed
- Hagne
- Agnes
- Annis
- Annice
Related forms: Agnese · Inés · Agnès
Pronouncing Annice
ANN-iss
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The parent name has a hard g that this form lost several centuries ago.
Nicknames for Annice
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
- 1884
- Most girls named
- 195936 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #851reached in 1884
- Change vs 2008
- −28.6%5 in 2013, 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.
Annice in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Agnese in Italian — same name
- Inés in Spanish — same name
- Agnès in French — same name
Annices among us
people named Annice 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
Annice 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 genuine medieval English form rather than a modern respelling.
- The meaning is clear and belongs to a very well-attested name.
- It is short and gives no trouble at all.
- It will be read as a form of Anne, which it is not.
- Annis and Anice both appear and the spelling gets queried.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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- How many Annices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Annice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Annice in 2025?
- Annice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Annice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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