Anessa
#4,177 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anessa has been given to 2,876 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #4,177 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 126 recorded.
Babies named Anessa, 2025
1 in 97,500
Anessa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Anessa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,177
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anessa 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anessa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anessas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anessa was born before 2003 — so the typical Anessa is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 34.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,876
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (997).
Is Anessa 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
- −210
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,116
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.62×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.0%
- Peak was 2007 (126)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.9% average annual change
Spellings of Anessa
Anessa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 37.3% against Anessa's 0.34%.
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 Anessa is used
Across 1910–2025, Anessa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 103,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (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. Anessa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anessa around the world
Where Anessa 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 & Wales2008–2023#5,688in 2023
- France1977–2023#7,010in 2023
- Canada1992–2014#2,839in 2014
- South Australia1970–1980#634in 1980
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Anessa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anessa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Anessa
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anessa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Anessa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.