Meaning not yet researched.
Anissa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #348 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #348 in 1971; #3,071 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anissa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,071 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #348.
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Anissa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #348 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 724 (1971).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Anissa, making it the 3,071st most common girls’ name of the year, down 405 places from #2,666 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 65 girls named Anissa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #348, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 724. For comparison, it was #2,213 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anissa in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 23 babies. In all, 12,503 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,418 babies named Anissa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 834 US girls were named Anissa; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anisa (5,558 babies since 1880), Anyssa (2,090 babies since 1880), Anessa (2,876 babies since 1880) and Aneesa (1,582 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annissa, Anisah and Annisa 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Annissa (1,162), Anisah (794), Annisa (697), Annessa (672), Anesa (467), Anaisa (448), Anysa (207), Aniza (140), Aneisa (121), Anaissa (116), Aniesa (85), Annyssa (54), 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 Anissa 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 | 53 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,666 | — | — |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2006 | 188 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 2005 | 228 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2004 | 268 | #903 | — | — |
| 2003 | 345 | #738 | — | — |
| 2002 | 301 | #780 | — | — |
| 2001 | 299 | #789 | — | — |
| 2000 | 304 | #753 | — | — |
| 1999 | 320 | #708 | — | — |
| 1998 | 345 | #669 | — | — |
| 1997 | 337 | #655 | — | — |
| 1996 | 296 | #713 | — | — |
| 1995 | 376 | #598 | — | — |
| 1994 | 564 | #451 | — | — |
| 1993 | 602 | #413 | — | — |
| 1992 | 233 | #854 | — | — |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1990 | 170 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1979 | 142 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1978 | 165 | #885 | — | — |
| 1977 | 183 | #819 | — | — |
| 1976 | 239 | #649 | — | — |
| 1975 | 168 | #815 | — | — |
| 1974 | 139 | #908 | — | — |
| 1973 | 221 | #675 | — | — |
| 1972 | 459 | #421 | — | — |
| 1971 | 724 | #348 | 5 | #4,951 |
| 1970 | 603 | #389 | — | — |
| 1969 | 607 | #378 | — | — |
| 1968 | 503 | #418 | — | — |
| 1967 | 219 | #646 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,521 | — | — |
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).