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Anisa

#2,752 in 2025Girls' name

The women

Anisa has been given to 5,558 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #2,752 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Anisa, 2025

1 in 53,500

Anisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anisa: meaning, origin, and history

The women

Arabic

What Anisa means

Anisa means “the women”, associated with an-nisāʔ.

Origin, language, and formation

Anisa is used in Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Anisa is pronounced /ʔanisa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,558 girls were recorded with the name Anisa between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,020 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,243 in 2020 to #2,752 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,795 in 2015 to #2,752 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anisa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 53,500
62 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,752
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
37,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anisa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 37,064 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anisa was born before 2004 — so the typical Anisa is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,558
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (1,876).

Is Anisa 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
−599
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−957
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.1%
Peak was 2005 (221)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,020
1967

Spellings of Anisa

Anisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 26.9% against Anisa's 0.15%.

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 Anisa is used

Across 2016–2025, Anisa was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 18,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

124 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 4,167
  2. 2New York1 in 5,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 14,286
  4. 4Washington1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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.

Anisa around the world

Where Anisa 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1959–2025
    #3,018
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #446
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anisa

People whose public names include Anisa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anisa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anisa. Linked forms have their own page here.

NisaAnaisAnishaAnissaAnaïs

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anisa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,752
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 509
Best rank ever
#1,020
1967
Peak year
2005
221 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,558
Count in 2025
62

Names similar to Anisa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Anisa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anisa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anisa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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