Nisan

#13,338 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nisan has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #13,338 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nisan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Nisan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nisan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nisan means

Nisan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nisan is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Nisan between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,721 in 2023.

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.

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How common is Nisan?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #13,338; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Nisan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nisan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nisans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nisan was born before 2023 — so the typical Nisan is around 2 today.

Median birth year: 2023; About 2 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 80.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 80.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 26; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 80.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Nisan 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 55.6%; Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,721; 2023

Spellings of Nisan

Nisan is not the most common spelling — Ian is, with 31.9% against Nisan's <0.01%.

Ian31.9%257,664
Ivan18.6%150,137
Nolan16.8%135,505
Aidan14.7%118,431
Milan2.3%18,608
Kian1.7%13,457
Nixon0.92%7,389
Isai0.91%7,340

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 Nisan is used

Across 1910–2025, Nisan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nisan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nisan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #13,338
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #8,721; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 9 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 26
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Nisan

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

Nissan Nissen Nisiah Nishiv Assan Nishil Nisson Nish Jassan Nishad Kasan Lowsan Nishal Josan Rasan Kysan Kesan Rafsan Nisarg Tysan Isan Masan Nissim Sasan

Sibling names for Nisan

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Shyann Halie Sydni Sydnie Karleigh Rhianna

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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