Aneesa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: companion
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪnɛsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aneesa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 219K
- GYGuyana1 in 7.4K
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 Aneesa 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
companion
Sources 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aneesa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Aneesa | 45 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Aneesa | 46 |
| US United States | — | 1,522 | 1 in 219K | 1.5K | Aneesa | 189 |
| FI Finland | — | 970as Ansa | 1 in 5.7K | 1.2K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Aneesa | 20 |
| GY Guyana | #725 | 101 | 1 in 7.4K | 101 | Aneesa | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | #242 | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Aneesa | 12 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aneesa Ahmedb. 1949MVMaldivian women's rights activist
- Aneesa O'Brienb. 2002CAGuyanese footballer
- Aneesa Abbas HigginsFRliterary translator
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 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,227 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 159 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 119 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 101 | #493 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 82 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #21,551 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,603 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #9,227 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aneesa?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪnɛsə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Aneesa a male or female name?
- Aneesa 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 Aneesa mean, and where does it come from?
- companion Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- In which country does Aneesa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Aneesa in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aneesa.
- Where is Aneesa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aneesa is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 7.4 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aneesa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,522 people named Aneesa in 2020, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
- How common is Aneesa compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Aneesa is the 242nd most common given name of 6,583 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/aneesaThe 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, “Aneesa” — the 242nd most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.