Aneesha
Aneesha was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 590 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aneesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aneesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,459, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1979, the peak
Aneesha peaked in 1979, when 25 girls were given it, #3,243 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,459 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,721 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,460 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,017 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,318 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,606 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,236 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,744 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,032 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,445 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | #9,587 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,142 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,925 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,766 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,035 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,681 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,192 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,800 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,232 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,590 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,642 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,537 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,547 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,851 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,001 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,022 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,590 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,067 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,558 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,608 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,357 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,155 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,374 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,922 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,475 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,937 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,539 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,420 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,243 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,287 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,435 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,200 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aneesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aneesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aneesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aneesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 577 Americans named Aneesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 661 people named Aneesha (657 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,128 babies since 1880, Aneesha is the sixth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Aneesha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Aneesha
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 Aneesha and names like it
- Compare Aneesha and AnishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAneesha peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aneesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Aneesha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aneesha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.