# Anissa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anissa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12,503 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 12,498 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 232, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 138 | 1,577 |
| 2012 | 110 | 1,834 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,792 |
| 2014 | 89 | 2,143 |
| 2015 | 85 | 2,213 |
| 2016 | 108 | 1,885 |
| 2017 | 88 | 2,164 |
| 2018 | 112 | 1,816 |
| 2019 | 98 | 1,971 |
| 2020 | 92 | 2,023 |
| 2021 | 79 | 2,310 |
| 2022 | 69 | 2,559 |
| 2023 | 70 | 2,520 |
| 2024 | 65 | 2,666 |
| 2025 | 53 | 3,071 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | 4,951 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3,549 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

## People named Anissa

- Anissa Jones, American actress (1958-1976)
- Anissa Kate, French pornographic actress and director
- Anissa Daoud, French-Tunisian actress, film director and producer
- Anissa Khelfaoui, Algerian fencer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.