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Anisha

#4,559 in 2025Girls' name

Nightless, sleepless

Anisha has been given to 4,546 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #4,559 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Anisha, 2025

1 in 111,000

Anisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anisha: meaning, origin, and history

Nightless, sleepless

Sanskrit

What Anisha means

Anisha means “nightless, sleepless”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A transliteration of Sanskrit अनीशा (anīśā, feminine of अनीशः (anīśaḥ)).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Anisha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Anisha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Anisha comes through Sanskrit अनीशा.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अन.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,546 girls were recorded with the name Anisha between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,012 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,179 in 2020 to #4,559 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,279 in 2015 to #4,559 in 2025.

How common is Anisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,559
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anisha 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anisha was born before 1999 — so the typical Anisha is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,546
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (1,221).

Is Anisha 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
−167
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−380
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,280
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 2002 (144)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,012
1984

Spellings of Anisha

Anisha is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 27.2% against Anisha's 0.57%.

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 Anisha is used

Across 2016–2025, Anisha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 34,486 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Anisha around the world

Where Anisha 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2002–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    2000–2024
    #5,653
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, 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 Anisha

People whose public names include Anisha, 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.

Anisha in other languages

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

AnisaNishaAnicha

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

Anisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,559
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 380
Best rank ever
#1,012
1984
Peak year
2002
144 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,546
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Anisha

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

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Names with a curve like Anisha

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

StefanyFranchescaAnalisaJenessaMallorieKarahRyanneTierneyChassidyCalliErynKeona

Sibling names for Anisha

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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