Anaysha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-NAY-shuh
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Anaysha is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
Where does Anaysha come from?
Modern name used by South Asian families, a variant of Anaisha
Is Anaysha a girl's or a boy's name?
Anaysha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anaysha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Anaysha, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Anaysha of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Anaysha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
How popular is Anaysha in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Anaysha in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anaysha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Names like Anaysha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Amira, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Ayah, Hiba, Khadija, Ayra, Halima, Rahma, Zainab
Names related to Anaysha
Anays, Anisha, Anaisha, Anashe, Anaisa, Anusha, Anesha, Anyssa, Anasia, Anysia
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anaysha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anaysha, updated 20 October 2026.