Meaning not yet researched.
Anisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,020 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,020 in 1967; #2,752 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,752 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #1,020.
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Anisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,020 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 221 (2005).
In 2025, 62 US girls were named Anisa, making it the 2,752nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 599 places from #2,153 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 88 girls named Anisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,020, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 221, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,795 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anisa in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 7 babies. In all, 5,558 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,876 babies named Anisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 839 US girls were named Anisa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,924 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anisa ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #848 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anissa (12,503 babies since 1880), Anais (9,331 babies since 1880), Anisha (4,546 babies since 1880) and Nisa (1,736 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anaiza and Aanisah 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: Anaiza (233), Aanisah (39).
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 Anisa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #848 | #771 |
| New York | 16 | #949 | #684 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,286 | #1,292 |
| California | 8 | #2,288 | #1,931 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 2020 | 80 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 2016 | 87 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 2011 | 180 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2009 | 144 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 2008 | 196 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2006 | 184 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2005 | 221 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2004 | 207 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2003 | 217 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 2002 | 211 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 2001 | 174 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 1996 | 118 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1994 | 145 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,044 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,471 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1967 | 102 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,911 | — | — |
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).