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Nihan

#5,663 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Secret, hidden

Nihan has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #5,663 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.

Babies named Nihan, 2025

1 in 151,000

Nihan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Nihan over time

In 2025, Nihan went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20152025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Nihan: meaning, origin, and history

Secret, hidden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nihan means

Nihan means “secret, hidden”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nihan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 211 girls were recorded with the name Nihan between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,620 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,620 in 2020 to #5,663 in 2025.

In the United States, 67 boys were recorded with the name Nihan between 2015 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2015; its best national rank was #6,964 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nihan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,663
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nihan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nihan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nihans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nihan was born before 2021 — so the typical Nihan is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
94.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
211
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2020s — 94.8% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Nihan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−560
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,043
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
33.8%
Peak was 2020 (65)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
124.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,620
2020

Spellings of Nihan

Nihan is not the most common spelling — Nina is, with 51.7% against Nihan's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nihan is used

Across 1910–2025, Nihan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 521,930 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nihan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nihan around the world

Where Nihan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2025
    #3,444
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nihan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,663
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,043
Best rank ever
#2,620
2020
Peak year
2020
65 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
211
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,964
2015
Peak year
2015
12 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nihan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nihan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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