Anisa — #2149 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Anisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,496 babies named Anisa between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anisa currently holds the #2149 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 221 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anisa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,876 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Anisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 841 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anisa in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anisa 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 5,496 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.