Name meaning & stats
Anisa
Anisa means “to be friendly”. 5,558 US babies since 1940, peak 2005.
What it means
“to be friendly”
Spelling of Anissa
In US birth records
Peak year: 2005
5,558 US babies were named Anisa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Anisa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 6 Anissas spell it Anisa
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2005)