Anissa
Anissa was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,071 among girls’ names; 12,503 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,000 Americans named Anissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anissa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anissa is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anissa?
#3,071 among girls’ names, 2025
Anissa fell from #2,213 in 2015 to #3,071 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 47.6 to 33.0 per million.
729 babies in 1971, the peak
Anissa peaked in 1971, when 729 babies were given it (724 girls, #348 among girls’ names). The 53 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,071 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,666 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 70 | #2,520 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,559 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,310 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,023 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,971 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,816 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,164 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,885 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #2,213 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,143 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,792 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,834 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,529 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,496 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,333 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 188 | #1,275 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 228 | #1,046 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 268 | #903 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 345 | #738 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 301 | #780 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 299 | #789 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 304 | #753 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 320 | #707 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 345 | #669 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 337 | #655 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 296 | #713 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 376 | #598 | 0.21 |
| 1994 | 564 | #451 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 602 | #413 | 0.33 |
| 1992 | 233 | #852 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 170 | #1,050 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,570 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,520 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,668 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,760 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,812 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,720 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,674 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 142 | #1,006 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 165 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 183 | #819 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 239 | #649 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 168 | #815 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 139 | #908 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 221 | #675 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 459 | #421 | 0.30 |
| 1971 | 724 | #348 | 0.44 |
| 1970 | 603 | #389 | 0.34 |
| 1969 | 607 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1968 | 503 | #418 | 0.31 |
| 1967 | 219 | #646 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anissa has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anissa, and how old are they?
12,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,503 Americans ever recorded as Anissa. The median Anissa alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 10,369 people named Anissa (10,364 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
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 Anissa born?
The states with the most babies named Anissa are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,271 | #1,753 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 1,694 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 666 | #2,114 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 654 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 456 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 441 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 348 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 277 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 262 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 256 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Anissa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anissa is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1966 it was given 3.0 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 Anissa 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 27,935 babies since 1880, Anissa is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 184 babies (29%), the second 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 Anissa
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 Anissa and names like it
- Compare Anissa and AnisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAnissa peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Anissa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Anissa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.