Annalise is the German compound of Anna + Lise (Elizabeth) — combining the Hebrew Channah ("grace") with Elisheba ("my God is my oath"). A top-500 US baby name since 2002. Professor Annalise Keating — lead character of ABC's How to Get Away with Murder (HTGAWM, 2014-2020); played by Viola Davis, who in 2015 became the first African American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series — a watershed moment in TV history; Davis's emotional acceptance speech ("The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity") became one of the most-quoted Emmy moments of the decade. Annalise Braakensiek (1972-2019) — Australian model and actress.
Annalise 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Annalise reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.