Meaning not yet researched.
Anessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,564 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,564 in 2002; #4,178 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,178 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #1,564.
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Anessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,564 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 126 (2007).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Anessa, making it the 4,178th most common girls’ name of the year, down 210 places from #3,968 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 37 girls named Anessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,564, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 126, in 2007. For comparison, it was #3,061 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anessa in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 17 babies. In all, 2,876 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 997 babies named Anessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 397 US girls were named Anessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anissa (12,503 babies since 1880), Anisa (5,558 babies since 1880), Anyssa (2,090 babies since 1880) and Aneesa (1,582 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aneesah and Aneeza are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aneesah (714), Aneeza (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anessa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,351 | — | — |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,743 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2007 | 126 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,164 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,586 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,155 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,089 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).