Anni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Anni is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 280(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 784
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anni itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #775 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Annie, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Annie in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden and 3 more and Runi in IN India.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., Koseform von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Anni, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anni counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 569 | 210K | — | 10 |
| US United States | #340 | 115,909as Annie | 1 in 2.9K | 116K | Annie | 558 |
| IN India | — | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 267 | Runi | 150 |
| PH Philippines | #515 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Annie | 118 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Annie | 131 |
| HU Hungary | — | 21,727as Áron | 1 in 450 | 22K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | #159 | 19,870 | 1 in 280 | 30K | Anni | 100 |
| ZM Zambia | #119 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Annie | 28 |
| SE Sweden | #269 | 13,073as Annie | 1 in 780 | 13K | Annie | 88 |
| DK Denmark | #291 | 7,484 | 1 in 784 | 7.5K | Annie | 102 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Anni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, first-person singular active present subjunctive of anna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of and
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of annus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, which?
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lex, wind
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anni Albersb. 1899DEGerman-American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer, student and teacher at the Bauhaus (1899–1994)
- Anni Holdmannb. 1900DEGerman sprinter (1900–1960)
- Anni Rehbornb. 1904DEGerman swimmer (1904-1986)
- Anni Blomqvistb. 1909FIwriter from Åland (1909–1990)
- Anni Steuerb. 1913DEOlympic hurler
- Helena Takalob. 1947FInot in their usual nameFinnish cross-country skier
- Rosa Liksomb. 1958FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer (born 1958)
- Anni Sinnemäkib. 1973FIFinnish politician and poet
- Anni Friesinger-Postmab. 1977DEGerman speed skater
- Anni Esparb. 1993ESSpanish water polo player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)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.
Evidence
(measured from records)72 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30K | #64 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 20K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7.5K | #95 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,362 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.6K | #1,216 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 815 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1944 | 35 | #510 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 19 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11 | #8,362 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anni mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., Koseform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- In which country does Anni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Annie in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anni is densest in Finland — about 1 in 280 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Anni?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages; Niina is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Anni a male or female name?
- Anni is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- How common is the name Anni?
- In Finland, the national register counted 19,870 people named Anni, about 1 in 280 residents.
- How common is Anni compared with other names?
- In Zambia, Anni is the 119th most common given name of 8,845 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anni” — the 119th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.