Anyssa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.
Anyssa by the numbers
Anyssa was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 136 babies in 1994, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Anyssa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Anyssa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Anyssa
Names that are said the same way as Anyssa, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Anisafriendly; companionable32 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aneesafriendly; companionable; a form of Anisa5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aneesahfriendly, sociable, companionable12 in the US (2017)
- Annisafriendly, companionable11 in the US (2017)
- Anisahfriendly or companionable5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Annissa7 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Anyssa
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