Aneesa
Aneesa was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,912 among girls’ names; 1,582 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Aneesa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aneesa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aneesa?
#8,912 among girls’ names, 2025
Aneesa fell from #4,733 in 2015 to #8,912 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 6.8 per million.
159 babies in 2002, the peak
Aneesa peaked in 2002, when 159 girls were given it, #1,247 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,912 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,631 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,402 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,179 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,195 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,874 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,453 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,265 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,554 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,636 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,733 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,777 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,164 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,787 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,844 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,748 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,464 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,225 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,329 | 42.7 |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,309 | 43.1 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,316 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,201 | 43.6 |
| 2003 | 119 | #1,613 | 65.1 |
| 2002 | 159 | #1,247 | 88.5 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,488 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,591 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,316 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,652 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,451 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,184 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,103 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,233 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,261 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,529 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,960 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,840 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,843 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,728 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,810 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,777 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,373 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,189 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,162 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,936 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,346 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,469 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,610 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,839 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aneesa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aneesa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aneesa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aneesa, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,582 Americans ever recorded as Aneesa. The median Aneesa alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,522 people named Aneesa (1,515 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 294 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aneesa born?
The states with the most babies named Aneesa are California, New York and Texas, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 181 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 159 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 18 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Aneesa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aneesa is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aneesa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 26,692 babies since 1880, Aneesa is the fifth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 176 babies (6.3%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aneesa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aneesa and names like it
- Compare Aneesa and AnissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAneesa peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aneesa since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Aneesa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aneesa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.