Anabel
Anabel is a feminine given name. It is the Spanish version of Annabel.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Anabel
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Anabel is a feminine given name. It is the Spanish version of Annabel.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Anabel
Anabel first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1882, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2014: 297 births, good for #911 nationwide. About 23% of every Anabel on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Anabel ranks #4,427 for baby girls with 31 births, falling sharply (-56%). All told, over 10K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1880s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Anabel
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Anabel. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Ana Isabel
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About the name Anabel
Anabel is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1882 and has accumulated 10K births in the dataset. Anabel's peak popularity came in 2014 when it ranked #633. Use the chart and map above to compare Anabel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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