Name meaning & stats
Anyssa
Anyssa means “to be friendly”. 2,090 US babies since 1940, peak 1994.
What it means
“to be friendly”
Spelling of Anissa
In US birth records
Peak year: 1994
2,090 US babies were named Anyssa between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Anyssa (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 16 Anissas spell it Anyssa
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1994)