Entry № 675 · Arabic origin

Anisa Anisa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NEE-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Friendly / intimate companion"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "friendly / intimate companion".

Anisa is from the Arabic أنيسة (Anīsah — friendly, intimate, sociable companion) — from Arabic uns (companionship/intimacy). Anisa is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting Arabic Sufi heritage.

Friendly / intimate companion (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

أنيسة
Transliteration
Anīsah
Pronunciation
/ əˈniː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anisa stands.

Anisa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anisas before her.

Real people
Anisa Mehdi
Pakistani-American journalist + filmmaker + Inside Mecca National Geographic 2003 + first American Muslim woman to film inside Great Mosque of Mecca.
Contemporary
In fiction
Anisa
Arabic friendly / intimate companion + Sufi Uns bi-Allah intimacy with God.

Names connected to Anisa.

The number behind Anisa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anisa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.