Anisha
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 141 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,546since 1968
Anisha over time
Rank among girls' names. Anisha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #2,168 | 89 |
| 2015 | #2,278 | 82 |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,003 | 97 |
| 2011 | #2,216 | 85 |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 |
| 2008 | #1,834 | 117 |
| 2007 | #2,147 | 93 |
| 2006 | #1,846 | 110 |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 |
| 2004 | #1,533 | 130 |
| 2003 | #1,395 | 142 |
| 2002 | #1,345 | 144 |
| 2001 | #1,540 | 120 |
| 2000 | #1,402 | 132 |
| 1999 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 1998 | #1,578 | 104 |
| 1997 | #1,434 | 116 |
| 1996 | #1,510 | 106 |
| 1995 | #1,318 | 126 |
| 1994 | #1,293 | 131 |
| 1993 | #1,271 | 134 |
| 1992 | #1,345 | 124 |
| 1991 | #1,517 | 102 |
| 1990 | #1,503 | 103 |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 |
| 1988 | #1,636 | 79 |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 |
| 1986 | #1,472 | 85 |
| 1985 | #1,588 | 75 |
| 1984 | #1,011 | 141 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 |
| 1982 | #1,641 | 70 |
| 1981 | #1,615 | 72 |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 |
| 1979 | #1,917 | 54 |
| 1978 | #1,781 | 57 |
| 1977 | #1,774 | 57 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anisha! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anisha is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#496 · 1 in 2,944
- Louisiana#626 · 1 in 3,420
- New York#652 · 1 in 4,037
- Massachusetts#696 · 1 in 5,113
- Pennsylvania#969 · 1 in 7,894
Best ever in a state: #472 in New Jersey, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #496 | 14 | 1 in 2,944 |
| Louisiana | #626 | 6 | 1 in 3,420 |
| New York | #652 | 24 | 1 in 4,037 |
| Massachusetts | #696 | 6 | 1 in 5,113 |
| Pennsylvania | #969 | 7 | 1 in 7,894 |
| Ohio | #1,112 | 6 | 1 in 9,700 |
| California | #1,164 | 24 | 1 in 9,280 |
| Michigan | #1,183 | 5 | 1 in 9,755 |
| Texas | #1,630 | 11 | 1 in 14,177 |
| Florida | #1,727 | 5 | 1 in 15,404 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anisha
- 159 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #4,546)
- 377 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #4,546)
- 2,268 spots since 2015 (#2,278 → #4,546)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1984 at #1,011 (141 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,942 girls born in 1984 were named Anisha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.9% of all girls named Anisha (1,221) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #4,198 (1969) | #5,607 |
| 1970s | 328 | #1,774 (1977) | #2,746 |
| 1980s | 845 | #1,011 (1984) | #1,513 |
| 1990s | 1,144 | #1,271 (1993) | #1,445 |
| 2000s | 1,221 | #1,345 (2002) | #1,661 |
| 2010s | 787 | #1,720 (2010) | #2,459 |
| 2020s | 204 | #3,763 (2023) | #4,196 |
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.
Anisha in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,478 of them was named Anisha, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,338Pauline145
- #1,338Rubi145
- #1,338Zara145
- #1,345Anisha144
- #1,345Katheryn144
- #1,345Kelsea144
- #1,345Lacie144
- #1,351Acacia143
- #1,351Arden143
- #1,351Eleni143
Tied with 5 names at #1,345; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.