Annabella

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Spanish:/anŋaβeʎa/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Annabella, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Mirabella
• Isabella
• Clarabelle
• Rosabella
• Daniella

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Annabella is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Italy

  Languages: Spanish, French, Italian

  Also written Anna-Bella, Annàbèllà

• Croatian given name25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Anabela, Anabella, Анабела, Аннабелла, AnàBèllà

• English given name87 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Swahili

  Also written Annabelle, Annabel, אנבל, אנאבל, Anna-Belle

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Anna Bella

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Annabella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel or Annabelle.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, ) Annabell; Annabel; Ana­ bel: weibl. Vom., entweder Doppelform aus

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Annabella Incontrerab. 1943ITItalian actress (1943-2004)
• Annabella Sciorrab. 1960USAmerican actress
• Bella Thorneb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 1997)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Annabella a male or female name?

Annabella is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Finland (DVV) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.

What does the name Annabella mean, and where does it come from?

Combination of Anna and Bella; 'grace' + 'beautiful'. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….

What are other forms of the name Annabella?

In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Annabella?

In Spanish /anŋaβeʎa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people named Annabella?

In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Annabella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annabella. After it come Philippines, Italy, Indonesia and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Annabella?

In the United States, the national register counted 12,034 people named Annabella in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.