Fun Facts About the Name Anaisha
- 868 babies named Anaisha: U.S. records list 868 babies given the name Anaisha from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Anaisha Mean?
Anaisha is a feminine name used mainly in India and in South Asian communities elsewhere, and it also appears in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Its meaning is not firmly established. The name is most often treated as a variant of Anisha, formed with an extra vowel before the sh sound. Anisha is sometimes traced to Sanskrit, where the negating prefix a- is joined to nisha ("night"), giving the traditional sense "without night" or "free of darkness." That gloss is a customary interpretation of Anisha; whether Anaisha carries the same meaning depends on whether the two names are truly the same name, which is not certain. A different suggestion treats Anaisha as a blend of the names Ana and Aisha, but that is a guess based on sound rather than a documented derivation, and Aisha is a separate Arabic name meaning "living, alive." No single etymology for Anaisha is widely accepted.
Anaisha Name History & Origins
Anaisha is best understood either as an extended form of Anisha or as a name built on the same pattern, with an inserted vowel before the sh sound. Names with an -isha or -aisha ending are common across several naming traditions of South Asia, the Arabic-speaking world, and Hebrew-derived naming, including Aisha, Isha, and Anisha. Because these names resemble one another so closely, similar spellings do not by themselves show a shared origin, and each has to be traced separately. Aisha, for instance, comes from an Arabic root meaning "to live," while Isha is used in India both as a girl's name and, in a different form, as a name of the god Shiva. Documentation for Anaisha itself is limited, so its development is clearer when seen alongside the more established names it resembles than as a line of transmission that can be followed through older texts or religious traditions. It has no traditional association with a particular scripture, saint, or literary work that would explain its use.
How Popular is the Name Anaisha?
Anaisha has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2019. Its best rank was #1,816 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,737 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2024 | #3,812 | 39 | 0.0024% |
| 2023 | #3,382 | 47 | 0.0029% |
| 2022 | #3,128 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2021 | #2,675 | 64 | 0.0039% |
| 2020 | #2,154 | 84 | 0.0052% |
| 2019 | #1,816 | 112 | 0.0067% |
| 2018 | #2,242 | 82 | 0.0048% |
| 2017 | #2,110 | 91 | 0.0053% |
| 2016 | #2,831 | 60 | 0.0034% |
| 2015 | #4,411 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2014 | #6,003 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #8,618 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #10,498 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #9,768 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #5,615 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2009 | #10,735 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #12,658 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #12,763 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2006 | #7,904 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #8,928 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2004 | #7,856 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #11,384 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2002 | #11,194 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2001 | #15,515 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #10,189 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #8,857 | 9 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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