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Baby name
Anne
Girl
Origin of the name
Anne comes from the Hebrew Hannah, “grace,” through the Latin Anna. In Christian tradition, Saint Anne is the mother of the Virgin Mary.
Classic name
325,128births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 82rank at its peak, in 1959
Where babies named Anne are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Anne is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Anne is most common in Massachusetts (2.7 times), District of Columbia (2.4) and Connecticut (2.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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