Is Anna overused?

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I’m not pregnant but Anna is in my top 5 girls names.
I just read another friend in which OP was asking opinions on Anna as well as 2 other names and quite a few comments said it’s overused.

I personally don’t know of any little Anna’s. I just asked my friend who’s a primary school teacher and there’s just one in her school. The reason I like it is because it’s obviously a well known name but it’s not too “unique” I’d never thought of it as a name where there’d be more than one in a class for example.

I wouldn’t have said it’s overused, I only know of 1 Anna younger than 10. I know more adult Anna’s, but even so, not so many that I’m falling over Anna’s all over the place.

Plus as a pp said, it’s been declining in popularity since 2000.

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I don't know any in the primary school DS has just left
Know 1 in her 40s

Think it's beautiful and classic - I would use it

I often think, on baby names threads that there must be hundreds of thousands of little bubbles of different names around the country. Am amazed at a pp saying it is really popular. I think it is a bit of a timeless name that wouldn't seem out of place, nor "fashionable". My work involves having to input onto a database of thousands upon thousands of U5s, and I can't remember the last time I saw an Anna.
Youngest one I know is 18.

I'm conscious/interested in what @kathryn19801 said about there being other names like Anna-Rose etc that make "Anna" feel more popular than it is. I've personally never met anyone with a hyphenated Anna-Rose but Anna sticks out to be for its classic elegance, in a way that I'd think of "Anna-Rose" as a totally different name

I'm nerdy enough to have the 2018 spreadsheets on my computer, and I've just done a quick filter to sort alphabetically. In 2018, there were:

628 Annas
3 Anna-Belles
3 Anna-Maes
7 Anna-Marias
4 Anna-Maries
3 Anna-Roses

There were also 166 Anas and 12 Ana-Marias.

It's really not especially popular at all in E&W. I wonder where all the Anna bubbles are where it feels like it is.

Not at all. I love it.

I'm in Northern Ireland. We must have a bubble of little Anna's! 🤣 I have taught numerous at secondary level and everytime I go to a play park we seem to meet one. Maybe I pick up on it more because I have an Anna so naturally tune in when I hear the name.

My cousin even called her baby Anna the same month mine was born. Still my favourite name though.

The only Anna's I know are 40-odd.

For little girls it's very underused imo

Definitely not overused in England. It is popular in Ireland and Northern Ireland though, looking at the stats.

I love it and only know one child and one adult Anna

I love the name Anna....i don't know any kids with that name in my area

@ZoyaTheDestroyer thank you so much for taking the time to look those statistics up! You're my sort of person 😃 Always like to see the actual numbers

I have an almost 8 year old Anna & since we named her we have only met two RL Annas both aged around 20. I've encountered young girls called Annie, Annabel & Hannah, but no other Anna. I researched it & when we named her it had fallen from the top 20 to somewhere between 80-100 if memory serves.

I liked it as it's timeless & classic, not faddy like Ava & Olivia, not infantilising like Evie & Milly. I can imagine it suiting someone at age 3, 33, 53 & 83.

I'm biased obviously, but I think you have great taste OP

We've got a 9 yo Anna. I know 3 others, one who must be 18 now, a 2 yo and DH's uncle's 2nd wife who is in her 50s possibly 60s.

I love how strong and classic it is without being staid or cutesy. YY to the pp who mentioned it's international appeal too.

Her middle name is Robyn too @MrsCalypsoGrant!

[quote Whatsyourflava]@ZoyaTheDestroyer thank you so much for taking the time to look those statistics up! You're my sort of person 😃 Always like to see the actual numbers[/quote]
It is nice to find your nerdy tribe!

I know 3 Anna's - age 7, 10 & 45

I like it.

I love the name Anna and don't think it's overused at all. I have a 4 and a 1 year old and don't know any Anna's under the age of 30.

If you like Alexandra and Andrea, what about Alexandria?

Adriana is a good suggestion. Has both the names you like (Andrea and Anna) abs is not very used although well known name.

I'm an Anna, never had any others at primary or secondary school but there were three when I was training to be a ece teacher.
There's one Anna at my daughter's school but I've never taught any myself in the last ten years.
My sister's called Katherine (Kate) I notice that's in your list.
Also my cousin is Hannah another lovely name.
I think it's a great name simple but pretty without being overly girly that's the vibe I get off your list I also like Anneliese and Anika.

Anna is beautiful. I don’t know any under 40.

It is a little but so what? It's a great name. You could always use Anastasia or Annabel or Annamaria on BC to give her fancier frillier choice.

I know two.

One is 52 and the other is 7.

I love it and I think it is neither overused nor underused. I worked in schools for nearly 20 years (until 2 years ago) and there were usually one or two Annas in a school at any one time, but never three in one class! And the same was true when I was at school myself 40-odd years ago.

I love it. Never met an Anna. Only reason I wouldn't use it is because we know quite a few Hannahs and it sounds so similar.

I don't know why this thread ahs been revived, but it is interesting that, in July, I said I don't know any babies or young children called Anna, and since then, I know of 3 baby girls that have been born, and EACH of them is called Anna !

(I mean, I know that is anecdotal and not data, but...... )