Entry № 711 · French origin

Anne Anne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ANN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Grace (Anne Frank; Anne Brontë; Anne Sexton)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "grace (anne frank; anne brontë; anne sexton)".

Anne is the medieval French form of the Hebrew Hannah ("grace, favor"). Anne Boleyn (Henry VIII's second wife, beheaded), Anne of Austria (regent of France), Anne Sexton (Pulitzer-winning American poet), Anne Carson (Canadian classicist-poet) — the name appears at every node of Western cultural history.

Subject of countless biographies, films, and adaptations.

Grace (Anne Frank; Anne Brontë; Anne Sexton) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Anne
Transliteration
Anne
Pronunciation
/ æn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anne stands.

Anne 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.

Annes before her.

Real people
Anne Frank
Dutch-Jewish diarist.
1929 – 1945
Anne Brontë
English novelist.
1820 – 1849
Anne Sexton
American Pulitzer poet.
1928 – 1974
Anne Boleyn
Second wife of Henry VIII.
c. 1501 – 1536
In fiction
Anne Shirley
Anne of Green Gables.
1908

Names connected to Anne.

The number behind Anne.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anne reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.