Annisa

#11,021 in 2025Girls' name

The women

Annisa has been given to 697 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #11,021 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Annisa, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annisa: meaning, origin, and history

The women

Arabic

What Annisa means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Annisa is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Annisa is pronounced /ˈanisa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 697 girls were recorded with the name Annisa between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1969; its best national rank was #2,588 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,276 in 2020 to #11,021 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,132 in 2015 to #11,021 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.

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How common is Annisa?

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
#11,021
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annisa 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annisa was born before 1995 — so the typical Annisa is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
697
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Choose a decade

1990s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Annisa 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
+1,255
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,111
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 1969 (26)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,588
1969

Spellings of Annisa

Annisa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 54.8% against Annisa's 0.04%.

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 Annisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Annisa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 805,591 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Annisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annisa around the world

Where Annisa 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
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1999–1999
    #2,199
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1972–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Annisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,255
Best rank ever
#2,588
1969
Peak year
1969
26 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
697
Count in 2025
8

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Sibling names for Annisa

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