Entry № 699 · French origin

Annabelle Annabelle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AN-ah-bell /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Loving, gracious beauty"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "loving, gracious beauty".

Annabelle is a compound name combining Anna (Hebrew Hannah, "grace") with the Latin bella ("beautiful") — giving "gracious beauty." It originated in medieval Scotland as Anabel.

Annabelle has been rising rapidly in the U.S., currently sitting in the top 70.

Loving, gracious beauty — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Annabelle
Transliteration
Annabelle
Pronunciation
/ ˈæn.əˌbɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Annabelle stands.

Annabelle does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Annabelles before her.

Real people
Annabelle Wallis
British actress, Peaky Blinders.
born 1984
In fiction
Annabel Lee
Subject of Poe's last completed poem.
1849 poem

Names connected to Annabelle.

The number behind Annabelle.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Annabelle reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.