Anesa — girls' name
462 babies named Anesa in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Anesa was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Anesa in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Anesa
The Social Security Administration has registered 462 babies named Anesa between 1967 and 2020, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anesa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Anesa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Anesa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Anesa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Anesa 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 462 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.
Anesa at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Anesa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1967
- Peak year (2005)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 54 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
462 total births across 54 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 32 births in a single year.
Anesa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 217 births that decade — 47% of Anesa's all-time total
Anesa decade highlights
- Peak decade 217 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Anesa's strongest decade
217 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Anesa by state
Where Anesa concentrates geographically — total births since 1967
Top 5 states
- New York 1.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.5% 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, 1967–2020 (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.