Meaning not yet researched.
Anisha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,012 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,012 in 1984; #4,560 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anisha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,560 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,012.
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Anisha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,012 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 144 (2002).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Anisha, making it the 4,560th most common girls’ name of the year, down 167 places from #4,393 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 32 girls named Anisha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,012, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 144, in 2002. For comparison, it was #2,279 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anisha in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 4,546 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,221 babies named Anisha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 460 US girls were named Anisha; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anisa (5,558 babies since 1880), Nisha (2,994 babies since 1880), Anusha (1,164 babies since 1880) and Anaisha (868 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anesha, Aneisha and Aneesha 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: Anesha (795), Aneisha (604), Aneesha (590), Anaysha (184), Annisha (169), Aniesha (121), Anasha (115), Anysha (97), Annesha (72), Anoosha (30), Anneisha (20), Anousha (20), and more.
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 Anisha 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 | 30 | #4,560 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,304 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,024 | — | — |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,181 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2015 | 82 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 2011 | 85 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2008 | 117 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2002 | 144 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1996 | 106 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1995 | 126 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1994 | 131 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1993 | 134 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1992 | 124 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1985 | 75 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,056 | — | — |
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).