About the name Anne
Anne belongs to the German and French tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Anne first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #52 in 1915, and in 2024 450 babies received the name — 324,648 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.