Anessa
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,876since 1967
Anessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Anessa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 |
| 2018 | #3,346 | 47 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 |
| 2014 | #2,739 | 63 |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 |
| 2011 | #3,267 | 50 |
| 2010 | #2,405 | 78 |
| 2009 | #1,934 | 108 |
| 2008 | #2,122 | 95 |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 |
| 2005 | #2,057 | 91 |
| 2004 | #1,781 | 107 |
| 2003 | #1,896 | 96 |
| 2002 | #1,564 | 119 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 1997 | #2,391 | 55 |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 1993 | #2,152 | 62 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 |
| 1976 | #2,387 | 34 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 |
| 1972 | #2,222 | 34 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 |
| 1970 | #1,904 | 45 |
| 1969 | #1,927 | 42 |
| 1968 | #2,482 | 25 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anessa! It came in at #3,085, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
Where Anessa is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,000 · 1 in 28,893
Best ever in a state: #382 in Nebraska, 2004.
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| California | #2,000 | 7 | 1 in 28,893 |
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See more about Anessa
- 209 spots since 2024 (#3,963 → #4,172)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #4,172)
- 1,113 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #4,172)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2002 at #1,564 (119 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,100 girls born in 2002 were named Anessa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,273 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all girls named Anessa (997) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 84 | #1,927 (1969) | #2,498 |
| 1970s | 331 | #1,877 (1971) | #2,484 |
| 1980s | 214 | #3,084 (1985) | #4,026 |
| 1990s | 494 | #2,152 (1993) | #2,731 |
| 2000s | 997 | #1,564 (2002) | #1,954 |
| 2010s | 557 | #2,405 (2010) | #3,036 |
| 2020s | 199 | #3,801 (2021) | #4,275 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anessa in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 59,339 of them was named Anessa, which outranked 75.3% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,008Toshia30
- #3,008Veronique30
- #3,008Vonda30
- #3,084Anessa29
- #3,084Aerial29
- #3,084Ainsley29
- #3,084Akira29
- #3,170Aarika28
- #3,170Aliya28
- #3,170Allicia28
Tied with 85 names at #3,084; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.