Name meaning & stats
Anessa
Anessa means “to be friendly”. 2,876 US babies since 1940, peak 2007.
What it means
“to be friendly”
Spelling of Anissa
In US birth records
Peak year: 2007
2,876 US babies were named Anessa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Anessa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 12 Anissas spell it Anessa
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2007)