Annissa — girls' name
1,162 babies named Annissa in U.S. Social Security records since 1967, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Annissa was born in this single decade.
61 babies were named Annissa in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Annissa
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,162 babies named Annissa between 1967 and 2019, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Annissa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 61 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Annissa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 343 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Annissa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 120 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Annissa in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Annissa 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 1,162 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.
Annissa at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Annissa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1967
- Peak year (1993)
- 61
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
1,162 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 61 births in a single year.
Annissa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 343 births that decade — 30% of Annissa's all-time total
Annissa decade highlights
- Peak decade 343 births
- Runner-up 289 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Annissa's strongest decade
343 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Annissa by state
Where Annissa concentrates geographically — total births since 1967
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 120 | 10.3% |
| #2 | Texas | | 34 | 2.9% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 18 | 1.5% |
| #4 | New York | | 16 | 1.4% |
| #5 | Arizona | | 13 | 1.1% |
| #6 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.4% |
120 of 1,162 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.3% of nationwide
- Texas 2.9% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.5% of nationwide
- New York 1.4% of nationwide
- Arizona 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.3% 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, 1967–2019 (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.