Meaning of the nameAnne

Anne is a spelling of the name Ane, which means “form of Anne, from Hebrew Hannah, 'grace'”.

Meaning

“form of Anne, from Hebrew Hannah, 'grace'”

Meaning of the name Ane, of which Anne is a spelling.

People (2022): 47,651
Rank in Brazil: #585
Median age: 17 years
2010 Census: 24,350; people

Anne in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Anne, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2010s (13,118 people).

47,438 women 213 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Anne is most common

States with the highest share of people named Anne in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Sergipe 0.121%
Rio Grande do Norte 0.061%
Amazonas 0.046%
Alagoas 0.044%
Paraíba 0.043%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	6,825	0.015%
Minas Gerais	4,827	0.024%
Rio de Janeiro	3,640	0.023%
Ceará	2,845	0.032%
Sergipe	2,670	0.121%
Bahia	2,667	0.019%
Paraná	2,451	0.021%
Pernambuco	2,343	0.026%
Rio Grande do Norte	1,997	0.061%
Amazonas	1,815	0.046%
Maranhão	1,777	0.026%
Goiás	1,762	0.025%
Paraíba	1,710	0.043%
Alagoas	1,384	0.044%
Pará	1,323	0.016%
Santa Catarina	1,136	0.015%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,107	0.010%
Distrito Federal	1,043	0.037%
Piauí	941	0.029%
Mato Grosso	844	0.023%
Mato Grosso do Sul	691	0.025%
Espírito Santo	571	0.015%
Tocantins	323	0.021%
Rondônia	284	0.018%
Amapá	266	0.036%
Roraima	246	0.039%
Acre	163	0.020%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Anne

It doubles the N, as in the English and French form that Wiktionary gives as the origin of Ane, and is the most recorded spelling in the group.

About the name Ane

Wiktionary records Ane in Portuguese as a loanword from the English and French forms Anne, equivalent to Ana and Hanna. Anne comes from Late Latin Anna and Greek Ánna, which go back to Hebrew Ḥannâ, 'grace'. In Brazil, the pronunciation of Ane is /ˈɐ̃.ni/. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 41,452 people named Ane, with a median age of 16. Proportionally, the name is most common in Sergipe. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists Anne, Hane and Hanne among the spelling variants.

Other spellings of Ane

Spelling	People (2022)
Anne	47,651
Ane	41,452

Sources

Wiktionary: Ane · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Anne · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Ane · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Anne

What does the name Anne mean?

Anne means “form of Anne, from Hebrew Hannah, 'grace'”, according to Wiktionary. This is the meaning of the name Ane, of which Anne is a spelling.

How many people are named Anne in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 47,651 people with the first name Anne, which ranks it number 585 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2010s.

Is Anne a boy's or a girl's name?

Anne is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 47,438 women and 213 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Anne?

Anne is a name of Hebrew and French origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Anne most common?

Proportionally, in Sergipe: 0.121% of the state's population is named Anne (2,670 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Anne?

Ane. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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