Anneli
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anneli is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Estonian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Anneli har antagits ursprungligen vara en smekform till Anne-Louise och liknande kvinnonamn.
- FIFinland1 in 49◐
- SESweden1 in 404
- EEEstonia1 in 486
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈141K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 80 ●
- 1 in 49 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
16K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Аннели in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Аннелі in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Anneli har antagits ursprungligen vara en smekform till Anne-Louise och liknande kvinnonamn. Snarast är det en förkortad form av det tyska Anneliese eller en smekform till → Anna, använd i Sverige redan under 1800-talet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 21 april och i den finlandssvenska 9 december.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #10 | 112,605△ | 2K rec. | 1 in 49 | 148K | Anneli | 62 |
| SE Sweden | #100 | 25,270△ | 11K rec. | 1 in 404 | 25K | Anneli | 80 |
| EE Estonia | #55 | 8,740 | 1K rec. | — | 3.4K | Anneli | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,072△ | 38 rec. | 1 in 16K | 1.1K | Anneli | 9 |
| NO Norway | #890 | 640 | 329 rec. | 1 in 8.5K | 2.3K | Anneli | 36 |
| US United States | — | 604 | 966 rec. | 1 in 551K | 604 | Anneli | 73 |
| RU Russia | — | 219 | 133 rec. | — | — | Аннели | 51 |
| DK Denmark | — | 194△ | 80 rec. | 1 in 30K | 194 | Anneli | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 181 | 122 rec. | — | 3 | Anneli | 33 |
| PH Philippines | — | 130 | 128 rec. | — | — | Anneli | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 120 | 127 rec. | — | — | Anneli | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 103 | 106 rec. | — | — | Anneli | 7 |
Roughly 113K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 49). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish568K94%
- Estonian9.3K2%
- English5.7K1%
- Swedish5.4K1%
- German3.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 567,525 | 94% |
| Estonian | 9,264 | 2% |
| English | 5,662 | 1% |
| Swedish | 5,372 | 1% |
| German | 3,766 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anneli is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Annelie; Annely: weibl. Vom., süddeutsche Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Scandinavian: shortened form of the originally German given name ANNELIESE .
as a word
In German, a female given name, a South German pet form of Anna, or shortened from Anneliese or Anne-Louise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name borrowed from German
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 16 |
| 1967 | 13 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 17 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 19 |
| 1984 | 17 |
| 1985 | 21 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 17 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 19 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 63 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Anneli Saulib. 1932FIFinnish actress (1932-2022)
- Tarja Cronbergb. 1943FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Kaija Saariahob. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish composer (1952–2023)
- Anneli Alhankob. 1953COSwedish ballet dancer and actress
- Anneli Jäätteenmäkib. 1955FIFinnish politician
- Heidi Hautalab. 1955FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Anneli Dreckerb. 1969NONorwegian singer and actress
- Pandorab. 1970SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer, recording artist, musician
- Paula Vesalab. 1981FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer-songwriter and actress
- Laura Lepistöb. 1988FInot in their usual nameFinnish figure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 47 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 148K | #7 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 113K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25K | #171 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 15K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3.4K | #26 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3.4K | #23 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.3K | #992 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 640 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 637 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2021 | 636 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2020 | 636 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 343 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anneli?
- We estimate roughly 141 thousand people bear Anneli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anneli have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 113 thousand people bear Anneli in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anneli.
- Where is Anneli most common?
- Anneli is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 49 people carrying it.
- How common is Anneli compared with other names?
- In Finland, Anneli is the 10th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Anneli a male or female name?
- Anneli is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Anneli mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anneli har antagits ursprungligen vara en smekform till Anne-Louise och liknande kvinnonamn.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anneli” — the 10th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.