Anisa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anisa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anisa: Recorded since 1980, it reached #266 in 1997, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
46years from first to last
#266highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#296
1997	#266
1998	#284
1999	#267
2000	#271
2001	#289
2002	#269
2003	#307
2004	#295
2005	#386
2006	#366
2007	#359
2008	#445
2009	#403
2010	#468
2011	#530
2012	#522
2013	#575
2014	#589
2015	#745
2016	#703
2017	#855
2018	#1272
2019	#1153
2020	#1100
2021	#1505
2022	#1245
2023	#1255
2024	#1065

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 34 of the 45 years from 1980 to 2024.

In 2024: #448 among girls in Norway, #1065 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1980–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1980
First recorded at #613 among girls in Norway in 1980 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #266 among girls in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Anisa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 34 years beginning in 1980, and has registered 227 births with the name.

Anisa across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Anisa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#613 (1980)	#301 (2001)	#448 (2024)	34 of 45	227 (1980–2024)	13 (2001)
England and Wales · Girls	#296 (1996)	#266 (1997)	#1065 (2024)	29 of 29	2,502 (1996–2024)	147 (2002)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#718 (2025)	3 of 21	11 (2005–2025)	4 (2011)

Anisa by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Anisa in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	22	5 of 10	4
1990s	55	9 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	72	9 of 10	8
2010s	69	9 of 10	8
2020s	9	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Anisa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1980 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in England and Wales in 1997.

Anisa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1065	32	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1255	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1505	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1153	29	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#855	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#703	58	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#745	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#589	70	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#575	71	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#522	81	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#530	79	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#468	88	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#403	105	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#445	95	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#359	121	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#366	114	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#386	102	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#295	139	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#307	130	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#269	147	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#289	130	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#271	143	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#267	144	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#284	132	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#266	142	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#296	125	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#448	5	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#492	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#500	4	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#482	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#506	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#431	8	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#446	7	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#357	12	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#419	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#372	11	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#546	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#460	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#367	11	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#544	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#527	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#417	8	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#375	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#388	9	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#301	13	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#389	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#529	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#548	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#393	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#609	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#558	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#561	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#457	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#584	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#602	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#639	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#590	5	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#615	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#613	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1980 and 2025, ranked in 40 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #266, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 147 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Vytautas · #266, 39y
Aline · #265, 40y
Giles · #265, 38y
Urszula · #273, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Henrikke · #267, 34y
Feilim · #264, 13y
Madelene · #264, 28y
Lori · #269, 33y

Anisa was ranked #266 in England and Wales · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Anisa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anisa without appearing here.

Anisa moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1505 and #2499.
Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1255 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1065 and #1894.
Alison Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1505 and #1402 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1245 and #1948.
Shannon Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1505 and #1505 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1245 and #1948.

Moved ahead of Anisa

Mari Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1127 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1505 and #957.
Bridget Compare
In 2017 they stood at #855 and #933 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1272 and #791.
Eileen Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1238 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1505 and #1069.
Blake Compare
In 2016 they stood at #703 and #768 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #855 and #499.

Moved the opposite way to Anisa

Jane Compare
Between 1980 and 2013 in Norway · Girls, Anisa went from #613 to #357 while Jane went from #205 to #576.
Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.

Moved the same way as Anisa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisa went from #296 to #1065 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1980 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #266 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anisa

Anisa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anisa across 3 official records

Anisa by decade in Norway · Girls

Anisa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Anisa at a glance

Anisa across 3 official records

Anisa by decade in Norway · Girls

Anisa appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Anisa

Anisa and the names beside it

Anisa moved ahead of

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