Anesa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-NEE-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Anesa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “friendly companion”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Anesa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aneesa, itself a spelling of Anisa, feminine of Anis
“friendly companion”
Meaning borrowed from Aneesa.
Is Anesa a girl's or a boy's name?
Anesa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anesa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Anesa, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 5 girls.
Half of all the girls named Anesa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2015. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 47 girls in the UK were given Anesa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #762, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Anesa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Anesa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Anesa, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2005, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1967.
2025 had more girls named Anesa than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Anesa in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 94 girls in the US were given Anesa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,772, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Anesa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,952 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,942 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,263 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,413 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,250 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,953 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,957 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,322 |
| 1970 | 5 | #7,994 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,803 |
Names like Anesa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Aaliyah, Syeda, Amina, Aisha, Khadija, Safa, Amara, Halima, Aqsa, Aliya, Hiba
Other spellings of Anesa
Names related to Anesa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Liyana
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, “Anesa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anesa, updated 20 October 2026.