Fun Facts About the Name Annakate
- 367 babies named Annakate: U.S. records list 367 babies given the name Annakate from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Annakate Mean?
Annakate is an English compound name formed by joining two established given names, Anna and Kate. It has no single root of its own; its meaning is the combined sense of its two parts.
Anna derives from the Hebrew Channah (חַנָּה), built on the root ḥ-n-n, "to show favor" or "be gracious." Its meaning is commonly given as "grace" or "favor." The name passed into Greek as Anna and then into Latin and most European languages in that form.
Kate is an English short form of Katherine. The customary meaning attached to Katherine is "pure," but that sense is a later interpretation: the earlier Greek form Aikaterine has no certain derivation, and "pure" is generally traced to the influence of the Greek word katharos ("pure") on the later form Katerina. Read as a compound, Annakate is usually understood as "grace" joined with "pure."
Annakate Name History & Origins
Anna and Kate were both in use as separate English names long before they were combined. Anna appears in English records from the medieval period, supported by the biblical Hannah (written Anna in Greek and Latin scripture), mother of the prophet Samuel, and by the traditional figure of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Kate arose as a spoken short form of Katherine, a name common in medieval England; the full name and its short forms spread through Europe largely by way of the devotion to Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
Annakate belongs to a modern pattern of English double names that run two familiar names together without a hyphen or space, placing Anna first and the short form Kate second, as in the parallel Marykate. Compounds of this kind are most at home in the United States and other English-speaking countries, where familiar names such as Anna, Mary, and Rose are joined with short forms like Kate, Beth, and Grace.
How Popular is the Name Annakate?
Annakate has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #5,743 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,743 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2024 | #6,637 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #12,273 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #8,582 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2021 | #6,989 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2020 | #6,954 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2019 | #8,643 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #13,947 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2017 | #7,873 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #7,635 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #8,046 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #8,086 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #9,672 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2012 | #7,839 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2011 | #9,213 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #8,309 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #10,754 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #7,105 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #6,578 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2006 | #6,612 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #6,028 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2004 | #7,865 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #12,528 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #12,315 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #6,093 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1999 | #7,279 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #14,302 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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