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Nisa

#6,758 in 2025Girls' name

Women

Nisa has been given to 1,736 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #6,758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Nisa, 2025

1 in 195,000

Nisa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nisa: meaning, origin, and history

Women

Arabic

What Nisa means

Nisa means “women”, associated with nisāʔ.

Origin, language, and formation

Nisa is used in Malay and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Nisa comes through Arabic نِسَاء.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Nisa is pronounced /ˈnisa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,736 girls were recorded with the name Nisa between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,576 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,557 in 2020 to #6,758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,051 in 2015 to #6,758 in 2025.

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 Nisa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nisa 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nisa was born before 1997 — so the typical Nisa is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,736
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (539).

Is Nisa 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
−1,654
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 1991 (97)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,576
1991

Spellings of Nisa

Nisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.4% against Nisa's 0.04%.

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 Nisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Nisa was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 152,621 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Nisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nisa around the world

Where Nisa 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
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • France
    1997–2025
    #737
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 201
Best rank ever
#1,576
1991
Peak year
1991
97 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,736
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Nisa

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

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Sibling names for Nisa

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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