girls:
1.5k births since 1967
#4201 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1967
#6197 (20th percentile)
The name Aneesa is the #6,197 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,549 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 19.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,201 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,549 births since 1967.
Aneesa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967). Birth data for Aneesa is available in 46 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Aneesa reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #740) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 81 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aneesa ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 16.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aneesa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aneesa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Aneesa is pronounced as uh-NEE-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-NEE-suh, at 10.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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