Anisha

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anisha: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #310, and it stood at #2,000 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#310highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#319
1997	#374
1998	#310
1999	#325
2000	#318
2001	#319
2002	#364
2003	#337
2004	#473
2005	#410
2006	#469
2007	#487
2008	#580
2009	#738
2010	#683
2011	#749
2012	#738
2013	#1177
2014	#920
2015	#1057
2016	#955
2017	#1911
2018	#1272
2019	#1634
2020	#2615
2021	#2073
2022	#1767
2023	#2063
2024	#2000

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2017: #873 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1911 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #319 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #310 among girls in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anisha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,702 births with the name.

Anisha across 2 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.

Anisha'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
England and Wales · Girls	#319 (1996)	#310 (1998)	#2000 (2024)	29 of 29	1,702 (1996–2024)	116 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#443 (2002)	#443 (2002)	#873 (2017)	4 of 16	14 (2002–2017)	5 (2002)

Anisha by decade in England and Wales · 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 Anisha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	415	4 of 10	104
2000sbusiest	865	10 of 10	87
2010s	357	10 of 10	36
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 87 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2003 and 2004, when recorded births fell by 38, from 111 to 73.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Anisha 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #310 in England and Wales in 1998.

Anisha'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	#2000	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1634	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1911	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#920	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#738	54	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#749	50	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#683	54	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#738	49	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#580	65	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#469	82	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#410	90	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#473	73	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#337	111	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#364	96	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#319	112	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#318	107	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#325	102	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#310	116	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#374	86	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#319	111	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #310, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 116 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 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.

Anisah · #375, 27y
Anish · #537, 29y
Anisia · #883, 14y
Anissa · #1372, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Haider · #310, 30y
Johannah · #310, 24y
Emmanuella · #312, 29y
Chanel · #307, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Haider · #310, 30y
Cael · #311, 21y
Jada · #311, 29y
Katie-Lee · #311, 9y

Anisha was ranked #310 in England and Wales · Girls in 1998. 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.

Anisha 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 Anisha without appearing here.

Anisha moved ahead of

Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1911 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1272 and #4684.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #3695.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #3519.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #3318.

Moved ahead of Anisha

Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1634 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1313.
Jacqueline Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1634 and #1940 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1449.
Elaine Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1634 and #1782 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1687.
Marianne Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1634 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1687.

Moved the opposite way to Anisha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Anisha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anisha went from #319 to #2000 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #310 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anisha

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anisha across 2 official records

Anisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Anisha across 2 official records

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