Anisa

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anisa is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Afghanistan it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Anisa är en femininform till det arabiska mansnamnet Anis som betyder ’trevligt’.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 769◐
  • TJTajikistan1 in 808
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈51K ●

across 10 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
238 ●

603K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 769 ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

NitaLatin · Hindi●305K records
АнисаCyrillic · Russian●67K records
אניסהHebrew · Hebrew●12K records
ᲜიტაGeorgian · Georgian●5.2K records
นิษาThai · Thai●2K records
আনিসBengali · Bangla●50 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Аниса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and 3 more, Nita in IN India, BR Brazil, PH Philippines and 2 more, Anisha in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia and 2 more and Nisa in TR Türkiye, TH Thailand, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Anisa är en femininform till det arabiska mansnamnet Anis som betyder ’trevligt’. Det kan i äldre tid (liksom Anissa) också vara en rysk smekform till → Anna.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anisa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#486731,705243K rec.—1.3KNita172
TR Türkiye#398249,405242K rec.—3KNisa51
RU Russia#40868,06519K rec.—#193Аниса120
FR France—19,430△4.3K rec.1 in 3.5K19KAnisa116
IL Israel#73312,05712K rec.—536אניסה14
US United States—10,36428K rec.1 in 32K10KAnisha238
PH Philippines—9,8798.4K rec.——Nita24
TH Thailand—6,9624K rec.—#299,611Nisa122
GE Georgia#3945,199△310 rec.1 in 7695.2KᲜიტა20
TJ Tajikistan#1115,16875 rec.—listedАниса13
KZ Kazakhstan#6085,1279.7K rec.1 in 3.7K5.3KАниса33
GB United Kingdom—4,3812.4K rec.—3Anisha104

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi188K52%
  • Indonesian63K17%
  • English27K7%
  • Albanian16K4%
  • Bangla7.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi187,70752%
Indonesian62,96317%
English26,8737%
Albanian16,0514%
Bangla7,9042%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anisa is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name93K records spelled Anisa10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Anisa, Anişa, Anísa, Ániśá, Ãnĩsã

  • English given name38K records spelled Anisa17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Anişa, Anisá, Anïsa, Anísä, Anīsa

  • Albanian given name16K records spelled Anisa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Ånisa, Äñîsá

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Anisa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Ethiopia, United Kingdom

    Also written Ānisa, Anìsa, Änisä, Anīsa, Anísa

  • Finnish given name1.3K records spelled Anisa3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Aniša

  • Persian given name752 records spelled Anisa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, India, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Persian, Pashto, Tajik

    Also written Аниса, Anîsa

  • Amharic given name288 records spelled Anisa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Philippines, Pakistan

    Also written አኒሳ, Anise, አኒሰ, አኒሣ

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Anisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Annapiirna (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In Arabic, friendly, sociable, companionable

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • Friendly.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Arabic, friendly, sociable, intimate friend; fem. of Anis

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, a pious-hearted lady, good-natured, compatible

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900192019401960198020001.7K · 1964

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Anisa in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
18991
19111
19141
19151
19166
19172
19181
19196
192011
19213
192216
19239
192418
192513
192618
192731
192826
192959
193038
193130
193291
193338
1934152
193561
1936121
1937153
1938112
1939209
1940111
1941149
1942329
1943163
1944462
1945238
1946387
1947432
1948345
1949614
1950414
1951468
1952869
1953454
1954940
1955582
1956758
1957862
1958767
19591,145
1960928
1961906
19621,527
19631,050
19641,703
19651,125
19661,515
19671,539
19681,391
19691,503
19701,521
19711,474
19721,671
19731,291
19741,224
19751,244
19761,435
19771,461
19781,395
19791,201
19801,172
19811,278
19821,336
19831,370
19841,200
19851,164
19861,272
19871,107
1988867
1989937
1990877
1991871
1992877
1993856
1994653
1995461
1996239
1997328
1998132
199910
20001
20011
200875
20092
201066
201127
201235
201356
2014106
201551
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 99 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1980199020002010Anisa Sayyed, b. 1980Anisa Kospiri, b. 1982Anisa Nugraha, b. 1990Anisa Guajardo, b. 1991Anisa Rola, b. 1994Anisa Vänikver, b. 1995Anisa Bek Derna, b. 1997Anisa Yotpinit, b. 1998Anisa Mehdi, b. 2000Anisa Polozani, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Anisa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206K#3,456
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—3.7K#59
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3K#204
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1K#1,641
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—750#2,080
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020652—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—403#5,299
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—363#2,638
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—330#4,094
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024322#305
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025295—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—274#20,861

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 800 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anisa?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Anisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Anisa have the most bearers?
Anisa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nita.
Where is Anisa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anisa is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 769 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Anisa compared with other names?
In India, Anisa is the 486th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Anisa a male or female name?
Anisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Anisa mean?
Recorded meaning: Anisa är en femininform till det arabiska mansnamnet Anis som betyder ’trevligt’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anisa” — the 486th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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