Anisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Anisa är en femininform till det arabiska mansnamnet Anis som betyder ’trevligt’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æˈnisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anisa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 87th most common given name.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.9K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anisa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anisha in US United States, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh, Nisa in TR Türkiye, AF Afghanistan, Nita in GE Georgia and Аниса in TJ Tajikistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Anisa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Anisha | 75 |
| TR Türkiye | #404 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3K | Nisa | 66 |
| BD Bangladesh | #626 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Anisha | 41 |
| AF Afghanistan | #87 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Nisa | 3 |
| US United States | — | 10,378as Nita | 1 in 32K | 10K | Anisha | 264 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #115 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Аниса | 13 |
| GE Georgia | #929 | 5,199as ნიტა | 1 in 769 | 5.2K | Nita | 19 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,697 | 1 in 832 | 3.7K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,561as Nuša | 1 in 821 | 2.6K | Anisa | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anisa Sayyedb. 1980INIndian sport shooter
- Anisa Kospirib. 1982ALAlbanian model
- Anisa Nugrahab. 1990THThai actress and model
- Anisa Guajardob. 1991USMexican association football player
- Anisa Rolab. 1994SISlovenian footballer
- Anisa Vänikverb. 1995EEEstonian singer (born 1995)
- Anisa Bek Dernab. 1997LYLibyan political scientist, media personality and climate activist, founder of Project Mulan
- Anisa Yotpinitb. 1998THThai volleyball player
- Anisa Mehdib. 2000IQCanadian film director and journalist
- Anisa Polozanib. 2001CHSwiss association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,456 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.7K | #59 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 140 | #1,244 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 137 | #614 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 62 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18 | #3,456 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2014 | 9 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Anisa?
- A machine transcription gives /æˈnisə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Anisa mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anisa är en femininform till det arabiska mansnamnet Anis som betyder ’trevligt’.
- 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.
- In which country does Anisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Anisa in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anisha.
- Where is Anisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anisa is densest in Albania — about 1 in 832 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Anisa?
- In the etymology graph, Anissa, Annisa and Enise are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Anisa?
- In Albania, the national register counted 3,697 people named Anisa, about 1 in 832 residents.
- How common is Anisa compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Anisa is the 87th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anisaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 87th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.