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Anisha

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~4,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#4,546 among girls
Births in 2025
30 4,546 since 1880
Typical age
26 years, median

Anisha popularity over time

Anisha rank by birth year, 1968–2025Anisha ranked #7,016 in 1968 and #4,546 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,011, in 1984.#1,000#4,546best #1,011 in 1984197019801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1968–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Anisha in 2002 than in any other year — 144 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1968. In 2025 it ranked #4,546 with 30 births.

Compared with 2015, births are down 63%. Year on year the rank dropped by 159.

Babies named Anisha per yearPeaks at 144 births in 2002.144 in 20020197019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Anisha?

Roughly 4,500 Anishas are alive in the US right now. That is out of 4,546 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Anisha?

The typical living Anisha is 26 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Anisha a millennial-era name.

Your Anisha

Ages of living people named AnishaHalf of living Anishas are older than 26 and half younger.median 2602040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Anisha is most common

Anisha is 2.9× as common in New York as it is nationally.

Where Anisha is used more than average2 states use the name Anisha more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.9× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 2.6× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Anisha is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New York 67 2.9×
New Jersey 27 2.6×

Anisha in England and Wales

ONS recorded 11 births named Anisha in 2025, ranking it #2,440. That is 22% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Anisha comes from

A Transliteration of Sanskrit अनीशा.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Anisha

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Anisha Vekemans cyclist 1991 8
Anisha Rosnah Bruneian Royal — 8
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Anisha

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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