Annet
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Annet is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Uganda it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A duck or drake.
- KEKenya1 in 3.9K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.7K
- USUnited States1 in 494K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 5.7K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
15K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Аннет in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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●
A duck or drake.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #405 | 7,472 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Annet | 24 |
| NL Netherlands | #877 | 3,036 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | Annet | 62 |
| RU Russia | — | 1,052 | 615 rec. | — | — | Аннет | 72 |
| UG Uganda | #28 | 940 | 244 rec. | — | 18 | Annet | 39 |
| US United States | — | 673 | 5.1K rec. | 1 in 494K | 673 | Annet | 134 |
| DE Germany | — | 566 | 533 rec. | — | listed | Annet | 57 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 346 | 285 rec. | — | — | Annet | 33 |
| ZM Zambia | #522 | 290 | 3 rec. | — | — | Annet | 8 |
| IN India | — | 289 | 272 rec. | — | 6 | Annet | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | 227 | 217 rec. | — | 1 | Annet | 34 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 210 | 215 rec. | — | — | Annet | 11 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 111 | 134 rec. | — | — | Аннет | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English11K24%
- Swahili9.7K22%
- Dutch6.7K15%
- Western Frisian4.8K11%
- Spanish3.4K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,505 | 24% |
| Swahili | 9,714 | 22% |
| Dutch | 6,655 | 15% |
| Western Frisian | 4,760 | 11% |
| Spanish | 3,369 | 8% |
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●
Annet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, third-person singular present active subjunctive of annō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, neuter singular of annen
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1957 | 7 |
| 1960 | 7 |
| 1964 | 7 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 17 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1954–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Annet de Clermont-Gessantb. 1587FRGrand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- Annet-Antoine Couloumyb. 1770FRFrench soldier and officer (1770–1813)
- Jean Angladeb. 1915FRnot in their usual nameFrench writer (1915-2017)
- Annet Nieuwenhuyzenb. 1930NLDutch actress (1930-2016)
- Annet Malherbeb. 1957NLDutch actress (born 1957)
- Annet Rudolphb. 1964DEGerman illustrator
- Annet Schaapb. 1965NLDutch writer and illustrator (born 1965)
- Annet Beltb. 1968NLpolitician from the Netherlands
- Among Anita Annetb. 1973UGUgandan politician
- Annet Mahendrub. 1985USAmerican actress
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 38 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 3K | #615 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.7K | #1,496 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 673 | #16,550 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1927 | 430 | #440 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 276 | #6,290 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 275 | #6,057 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 97 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 87 | #1,775 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 60 | — |
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 · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Annet?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Annet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Annet have the most bearers?
- Annet is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled annet.
- How common is Annet compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Annet is the 405th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Annet a male or female name?
- Annet 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 Annet mean?
- Recorded meaning: A duck or drake.
Query this name via API
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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, “Annet” — the 405th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.