Anisah
#11,013 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anisah has been given to 794 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #11,013 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 45 recorded.
Babies named Anisah, 2025
1 in 414,000
Anisah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Anisah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,013
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anisah 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anisah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anisahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anisah was born before 2002 — so the typical Anisah is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 794
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (314).
Is Anisah 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
- −1,399
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −797
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.8%
- Peak was 1999 (45)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.3% average annual change
Spellings of Anisah
Anisah is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 37.7% against Anisah's 0.14%.
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 Anisah is used
Across 1910–2025, Anisah was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 358,185 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Anisah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anisah around the world
Where Anisah 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
- Scotland1992–2004#555in 2004
- France1990–1990#3,168in 1990
- Canada1995–2005#2,828in 2005
- South Australia1979–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Anisah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anisah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anisah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.