# Anneli (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anneli/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 494 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 494 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 45, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 12,282 |
| 2012 | 15 | 7,845 |
| 2013 | 11 | 9,676 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,594 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,261 |
| 2016 | 21 | 6,008 |
| 2017 | 21 | 5,849 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5,471 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6,731 |
| 2020 | 22 | 5,499 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,716 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,807 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,188 |
| 2024 | 16 | 6,968 |
| 2025 | 16 | 6,867 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

## People named Anneli

- Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Finnish politician
- Anneli Ott, Estonian politician (born 1976)
- Anneli Sauli, Finnish actress (1932-2022)
- Anneli Saaristo, Finnish singer
- Anneli Taina, Finnish politician
- Anneli Cahn Lax, American mathematician (1922-1999)
- Anneli Björkling, American-Finnish beauty pageant contestant
- Anneli Aejmelaeus, Finnish theologian (1948–2025)
- Kaija Saariaho, Finnish composer (1952–2023)
- Heidi Hautala, Finnish politician
- Laura Lepistö, Finnish figure skater
- Tarja Cronberg, Finnish politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.