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Anissa

#3,071 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Anissa has been given to 12,503 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #3,071 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 724 recorded.

Babies named Anissa, 2025

1 in 62,600

Anissa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anissa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anissa means

Anissa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anissa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,498 girls were recorded with the name Anissa between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 724 in 1971; its best national rank was #348 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,023 in 2020 to #3,071 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,213 in 2015 to #3,071 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Anissa between 1971 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1971; its best national rank was #4,949 in 1971.

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 Anissa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,071
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anissa 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anissa was born before 1993 — so the typical Anissa is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,498
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (3,418).

Is Anissa 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
−405
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,048
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−858
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1971 (724)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#348
1971

Spellings of Anissa

Anissa is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 23.4% against Anissa's 0.93%.

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 Anissa is used

Across 2016–2025, Anissa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 17,639 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 9,091
  2. 2California1 in 10,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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.

Anissa around the world

Where Anissa 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1948–2025
    #552
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,049
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Notable people named Anissa

People whose public names include Anissa, 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.

Anissa in other languages

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

Anisa

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

Anissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,071
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,048
Best rank ever
#348
1971
Peak year
1971
724 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,498
Count in 2025
53

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,949
1971
Peak year
1971
5 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anissa

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

AniyahAnishaAnikaAniyaAnisaElissaOdessaElyssaTressaAniahJanessaAnijahAnitraAnistonMalissaAlissaAnielaKarissaAllyssaLarissaTeressaJessaAlessaAnessa

Names with a curve like Anissa

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

TaniaLisetteIvetteKenyaAngeliqueCorrinaTorriCelenaIvonneTorrieGiselaTyra

Sibling names for Anissa

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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