Aneesha — girls' name
590 babies named Aneesha in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Aneesha was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Aneesha in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aneesha
The Social Security Administration has registered 590 babies named Aneesha between 1976 and 2021, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aneesha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aneesha performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 163 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Aneesha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Aneesha in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aneesha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 590 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aneesha at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aneesha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1976
- Peak year (1979)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
590 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 25 births in a single year.
Aneesha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 163 births that decade — 28% of Aneesha's all-time total
Aneesha decade highlights
- Peak decade 163 births
- Runner-up 148 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Aneesha's strongest decade
163 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Aneesha by state
Where Aneesha concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 12 | 2.0% |
| #2 | California | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 6 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.8% |
12 of 590 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.0% of nationwide
- California 1.0% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.0% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.