How rare is the name Anisa?

6,013 people in the United States have the first name Anisa, about 1 in 50,230. It ranks #3,456 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANISA

#3,456

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,013
About
1 in 50,230
This common or more
82.4%
Who bears it

Of the 6,013 people named Anisa, 28.3% reported their origin as Black, 26.3% as White and 20.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anisa peaked in 2005, when 221 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19582025
Peak year
2005
Births that year
221
In 2025*
62 ▼72%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,558 babies have been given the name since 1958. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anisa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #2,145. The largest share of babies named Anisa, 49.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#13,6877
1960s#4,523189
1970s#3,632357
1980s#4,283357
1990s#2,5001,121
2000s#2,1451,876
2010s#3,1861,178
2020s#4,164473
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–8010.7%
Millennials 1981–9617.7%
Generation Z 1997–1249.9%
2013 and later21.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anisa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anisa has been most common in Arizona (4×), Minnesota (2.9×), and New York (2.9×), and least common in Michigan (0.53×).

3,368 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Anisa

#3,453 Thad · 6,017#3,455 Jaylyn · 6,015#3,457 Beryl · 6,009#3,458 Marques · 6,006

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anisa, most common first.

#1,886 Anika · 15,176#2,401 Anissa · 10,369#3,784 Anisha · 5,240#4,310 Anish · 4,400#9,683 Anis · 1,422#10,473 Anica · 1,271#12,045 Anise · 1,046#16,310 Annisa · 694

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