Anisah

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1999 · 45 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
794
since 1976

Anisah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Anisah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976peak #2,935, 1999girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024—
2023#15,1945
2022#10,3839
2021#15,2515
2020#9,54610
2019#11,3568
2018#6,79217
2017#11,6158
2016#8,39313
2015#10,14810
2014#7,63615
2013#8,13514
2012#7,14417
2011#6,14821
2010#6,90418
2009#6,54420
2008#4,76131
2007#5,89523
2006#4,81129
2005#4,70428
2004#3,98935
2003#3,34743
2002#3,33441
2001#4,10730
2000#3,73834
1999#2,93545
1998#3,64832
1997#3,44833
1996#4,73921
1995#5,95815
1994#4,52122
1993#5,95515
1992#5,71816
1991#7,43011
1990#7,30311
1989#8,0379
1988#8,3918
1987#7,9878
1986#9,5456
1985#7,5638
1984#9,1446
1983#7,3128
1982#8,2247
1981#10,4115
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Anisah! It came in at #8,156, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1977, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Anisah is popular in 1976

No state had 5 or more girls named Anisah in 1976, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Anisah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,371 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #10,917)
  • 769 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1999 at #2,935 (45 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 39,418
  • Highest: 1 in 39,418 girls born in 1999 were named Anisah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 39.5% of all girls named Anisah (314) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s16#5,958 (1978)#7,057
1980s65#7,312 (1983)#8,513
1990s221#2,935 (1999)#5,166
2000s314#3,334 (2002)#4,523
2010s141#6,148 (2011)#8,427
2020s37#9,546 (2020)#12,258

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Anisah in 1976

girls
#8,156
6 births · 1 in 244,183 girls

Top girls' names in 1976

  1. #1Jennifer59,473
  2. #2Amy31,339
  3. #3Melissa25,094
  4. #4Heather24,192
  5. #5Angela22,038
  6. #6Michelle19,550
  7. #7Kimberly18,962
  8. #8Jessica18,368
  9. #9Lisa17,346
  10. #10Amanda15,588
  11. #8,156Anisah6
More about 1976

girls

1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 244,183 of them was named Anisah, which outranked 25.3% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Anisah
  1. #7,296Zelia7
  2. #7,296Zora7
  3. #7,296Zuri7
  4. #8,156Anisah6
  5. #8,156Abbi6
  6. #8,156Abigal6
  7. #8,156Abigale6
  8. #9,284Aaren5
  9. #9,284Abeer5
  10. #9,284Abi5

Tied with 1,127 names at #8,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,548Rhiannon#4,141 → #593
  2. ↑ 3,533Mackenzie#4,370 → #837
  3. ↑ 3,060Khalilah#3,774 → #714
  4. ↑ 1,663Kenisha#2,612 → #949
  5. ↑ 1,455Latoria#2,411 → #956
Fallers
  1. ↓ 821Nyree#926 → #1,747
  2. ↓ 668Syreeta#778 → #1,446
  3. ↓ 505Cher#994 → #1,499
  4. ↓ 398Kandice#957 → #1,355
  5. ↓ 370Racquel#973 → #1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1976 →