How rare is the name Anissa?

10,369 people in the United States have the first name Anissa, about 1 in 29,128. It ranks #2,401 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANISSA

#2,401

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,369
About
1 in 29,128
This common or more
79.7%
Who bears it

Of the 10,369 people named Anissa, 34.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 32.9% as White and 23.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anissa peaked in 1971, when 729 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19662025
Peak year
1971
Births that year
729
In 2025*
53 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,503 babies have been given the name since 1966. 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.

Anissa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,019. The largest share of babies named Anissa, 36%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#1,5361,352
1970s#1,0193,048
1980s#2,622747
1990s#1,2063,418
2000s#1,7862,419
2010s#3,3591,091
2020s#4,425428
Generation X 1965–8036%
Millennials 1981–9624.5%
Generation Z 1997–1230.5%
2013 and later9%

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 Anissa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anissa has been most common in Arizona (5.4×), California (2.3×), and Texas (2.2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.3×).

9,802 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 Anissa

#2,399 Norberto · 10,382#2,400 Nita · 10,378#2,402 Lauri · 10,367#2,403 Coleen · 10,357

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,456 Anisa · 6,013#3,784 Anisha · 5,240#7,091 Anessa · 2,184#8,776 Anyssa · 1,633#12,583 Annissa · 985#23,426 Anisia · 418#30,089 Anissia · 291#49,014 Aniesa · 128

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