Anesa
#15,123 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anesa has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #15,123 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Anesa, 2025
1 in 663,000
Anesa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Anesa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #15,123
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anesa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anesa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anesas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anesa was born before 2004 — so the typical Anesa is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 467
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (217).
Is Anesa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +174
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,004
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.6%
- Peak was 2005 (32)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Anesa
Anesa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 31.9% against Anesa's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Anesa is used
Across 1910–2025, Anesa was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,704,701 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anesa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anesa around the world
Where Anesa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#4,201in 2025
- France2009–2017#5,778in 2017
- Canada2005–2005#2,828in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Anesa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anesa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anesa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.