Anisah
Feminine · “friendly”
The h at the end is a real letter. Arabic writes the feminine ending with ta marbuta, a letter shaped like an h carrying two dots, and every transliteration has to decide whether to show it. Anisah shows it. Anisa does not. The name is the same either way.
How old is the name Anisah?
Anisah first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Anisah alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 800 people named Anisah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anisah most popular?
Anisah peaked in 1999, reaching #2935 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 7,982 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From anis to Anisah
The story of Anisah
The root behind this name is one of the more generous in Arabic. It gives uns, the comfort of good company; anis, a companion; and a verb meaning to feel at home with someone. It also touches one of the older arguments among Arabic lexicographers: whether insan, the word for a human being, belongs to this root — the human as the sociable creature — or to a different root meaning to forget. The grammarians never settled it and both readings are still taught. Anisah, the feminine adjective used as a name, is given from Morocco to Indonesia, and the -ah and -a spellings are two ways of writing one Arabic letter.
Meaning
friendly, good company
Arabic anisah, from a root carrying the sense of companionship and familiarity. The related noun uns is the ease of being with someone, and anis is a close companion. The name describes a way of being with people rather than a quality claimed for the person.
How the name formed
- anis
- anisah
- Anisah
Related forms: Anisa · Anisa · Anisa · Anisa
Pronouncing Anisah
ah-NEE-sah
Three syllables, stress on the middle. The final h is silent in English. In Arabic it is a written letter that turns into a t when a suffix follows, which is the whole reason some transliterations show it and some do not.
Nicknames for Anisah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199945 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2935reached in 1999
- Change vs 2023
- +60.0%8 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anisah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anisa in Arabic — spelling variant
- Anisa in Persian — same name
- Anisa in Bosnian — same name
- Anisa in Urdu — transliteration
Anisahs among us
people named Anisah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Anisah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anisah
- #10917
- Anisah on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anisah went to 8 girls in 2025, but Anisa, Annisa and Aniza are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 84, which makes it the 876th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,041 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Anisah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Franki test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anisah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Franki climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Franki's path sketches the road Anisah is walking now.
Anisah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Anisah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anisah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that describes company rather than character.
- Used across Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bosnian and Indonesian communities.
- Two established short forms, both of which are names elsewhere.
- Anisa, Aneesa and Anissa all appear in American records, so this spelling will be corrected.
- The final h looks decorative to English readers and will be dropped by most of them.
- It is close enough to Anissa and Anita to be misheard as either.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anisahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Anisah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anisah?
- Anisah is one of 4 recorded spellings. Anisa is the more common one — 62 births in 2025 against 8 for Anisah.
- How popular is the name Anisah in 2025?
- Anisah ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anisah?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Anisah — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anisah with classmates?
- Anisah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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