Anesu
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- ah-NEH-soo
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Anesu is a name, meaning “God is with us”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Anesu mean?
Shona, from Zimbabwe
“God is with us”
A Shona name from Zimbabwe with the same meaning as the biblical Emmanuel.
Is Anesu a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Anesu has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK.
How popular is Anesu in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Anesu, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2005, with 8 boys.
Half of all the boys named Anesu in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2015, 30% of the babies named Anesu in the UK were girls.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Anesu in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
| 2016 | 1 | #6,416 |
| 2015 | 7 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 1 | #6,179 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 5 | #3,478 |
| 2009 | 7 | #2,679 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,384 |
| 2007 | 7 | #2,554 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,386 |
| 2005 | 8 | #2,090 |
| 2004 | 5 | #2,691 |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
| 2002 | 3 | #3,325 |
Names like Anesu
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed, Abdullah, Alfie, Ayaan, Oliver, Aryan, Ibrahim, Luca, Rio, Arjun, Armaan, Syed
Names related to Anesu
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anesu: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anesu, updated 20 October 2026.