Anisha
Feminine · “without night”
Anisha is Sanskrit for without night, built with a negative prefix — a name for continuous, unbroken light.
How old is the name Anisha?
Anisha first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Anisha alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 4,500 people named Anisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anisha most popular?
Anisha peaked in 1984, reaching #1011 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 3,535 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Anisha
Ours, offered as ours. Sanskrit builds a great many words with the negative a-, and English inherited the same prefix through Greek — atheist, anonymous, apathy, amoral all work identically. Anisha is that construction applied to night. The result is not quite day: it is the absence of interruption, which is why the word also means continuous. A name meaning unbroken is doing something more interesting than a name meaning bright.
Meaningscholars disagree
without night, continuous
From Sanskrit a-, not, and nisha, night; anisha means uninterrupted or without darkness. A separate Arabic Anisa, from a root meaning friendly and companionable, is also in use and unrelated.
Pronouncing Anisha
uh-NEE-shah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Anisha
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 2002144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1011reached in 1984
- Change vs 2024
- −6.3%30 in 2025, from 32
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.
Anisha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anisha in Hindi — transliteration
- Anisha in Sanskrit — same name
- Anisa in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, New Jersey.
Anishas among us
people named Anisha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Anisha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Willard test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anisha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Willard climbed just as high around 1905, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Willard's path sketches the road Anisha is walking now.
Anisha 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
Where Anisha is headed
Anisha should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anisha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anisha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Sanskrit construction with a genuinely subtle meaning.
- Ani and Nisha are both complete names in their own right.
- Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly in most languages.
- The Sanskrit and Arabic names behind this spelling are unrelated.
- Anisha, Aneesha and Anisa are all in use and get confused.
- It is close to Aisha and Alisha in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anishas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,500 people named Anisha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anisha in 2025?
- Anisha ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anisha?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Anisha — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anisha with classmates?
- Anisha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Anisha
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