Anissa

given name · Latin script

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

Anissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modern name, often taken as a variant of Agnes/Anisa; etymology uncertain, used in Arabic and French contexts.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 5.8K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈18,000 people, est.

Sources
303 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Modern name, often taken as a variant of Agnes/Anisa; etymology uncertain, used in Arabic and French contexts.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anissa 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.

Where Anissa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#478≈18,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K19KAnissa303
US United States—10,3691 in 32K10KAnissa182
DZ Algeria#387≈7,400 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Anissa24
MA Morocco—≈4,100 est.≈1 in 8.7KlistedAnissa35
TN Tunisia#396≈2,800 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Anissa27
BE Belgium#994≈2,000 est.≈1 in 6K30Anissa49

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anissa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aenissa, Ànïssà, Anißa, Anïssa, Änissa

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Anissa, Anissa', Anïssä

  • Russian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Анисса, Анісса, Anissà, Añiśšă, Aňįššã

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

    Also written Anîssâ

45 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(measured from records)

Anissa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, From Arabic, meaning ‘gentle, kind’.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

19201940196019802000Anissa Makhlouf, b. 1930Anissa Jones, b. 1958Anisa Ashkar, b. 1979Anissa Daoud, b. 1982Anissa Naouai, b. 1982Anissa Kate, b. 1987Anissa Khelfaoui, b. 1991Anissa Urtez, b. 1995Anissa Lahmari, b. 1997

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(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 45 countries.

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • 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

What does the name Anissa mean, and where does it come from?
Modern name, often taken as a variant of Agnes/Anisa; etymology uncertain, used in Arabic and French contexts. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Anissa a male or female name?
Anissa 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 are other forms of the name Anissa?
In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Anne are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Anna.
In which country does Anissa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Anissa in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anissa.
How common is the name Anissa?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,369 people named Anissa in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
How common is Anissa compared with other names?
In France, Anissa is the 478th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Anissa” — the 478th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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