Anissa

Where Anissa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Anissa.

  • Vowel-ended
Anissa through the years
  1. 1958
    Anissa Jones born
    American actress
  2. 1966
    Around this time: Anissa Jones in Family Affair
    TV, 1966 · Source
  3. 1966
    First appearance
    #2,519 among girls with 23 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1971
    Peak, #348
    724 babies named Anissa, the most in any year.
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #675.
  6. 1987
    Anissa Kate born
    French pornographic actress and director
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Anissa Jones · American actress, 1958–1976
  • Anissa Kate · French pornographic actress and director, born 1987
  • Anissa Daoud · French-Tunisian actress, film director and producer, born 1982
  • Anissa Lahmari · Moroccan, Algerian and French association football player, born 1997
  • Anissa Khelfaoui · Algerian fencer, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.