Anny
Feminine · “favor”
Anny is Annie with a French or Danish ending, and Anne is one of the oldest and steadiest women's names in Europe. The Hebrew behind it is a single word for favor, and it has never been in doubt.
How old is the name Anny?
Anny first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Anny alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,500 people named Anny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anny most popular?
Anny peaked in 2024, reaching #2585 nationally. Today it ranks #2859, 274 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Channah to Anny
The story of Anny
Anna reached Christian Europe through the gospels and through the tradition that named Mary's mother Anne, which is not in scripture but was universally believed and gave the name its enormous medieval currency. Every European language has a form of it and most have several. Anny is the French and Danish spelling of the affectionate form, standing where English writes Annie, and it reaches United States records with French, Danish and Latin American families — Spanish-speaking countries use it too, where the y ending is read as an i.
Meaning
favor, grace
Hebrew Channah means favor or grace, and it belongs to Hannah in the book of Samuel, who prays for a child and is granted one. Greek and Latin rendered it Anna, and French and English shortened that to Anne. Anny is a French and Danish spelling of the pet form; the meaning travels the whole way down unchanged.
How the name formed
- Channah
- Anna
- Anne
- Anny
Related forms: Annie · Anny · Channah · Anni · Anya
Pronouncing Anny
AN-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. French says it much the same way with the stress a little flatter; Spanish speakers read the y as an i, giving the same sound. There is no real ambiguity.
Nicknames for Anny
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
- 1920
- Most girls named
- 202468 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2585reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −13.2%59 in 2025, from 68
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.
Anny in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Annie in English — spelling variant
- Anny in French — same name
- Channah in Hebrew — related form
- Anni in German — spelling variant
- Anya in Russian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Annys among us
people named Anny are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was named Anny
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anny
- #2859
- Anny on the 2025 chart
- #807
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anny went to 59 girls in 2025, but Ani, Anni and Any and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 153, which makes it the 807th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,052 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 10,505 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,242 for Anny 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 Deona test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anny's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deona climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deona's path sketches the road Anny is walking now.
Anny 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 Anny is headed
Anny looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 31% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Anny beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anny in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Belongs to one of the largest and oldest name families in Europe, recognized everywhere.
- Ann and Anna both stand behind it as formal versions if one is wanted.
- Four letters, said correctly by everyone at first sight.
- Annie is the standard English spelling and this one will be corrected in writing.
- It is a diminutive by construction and can read as informal on documents.
- Anny, Annie, Ani and Annye all circulate and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Annys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Anny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anny?
- Anny is the most-used spelling in US records — 59 of the 153 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ani, Anni, Any and Anyi.
- How popular is the name Anny in 2025?
- Anny ranks #2859 among US girl names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anny?
- About 1 in every 27,242 US girls born in 2025 was named Anny — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anny with classmates?
- Anny will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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