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Nisha

#8,214 in 2025Girls' name

Night

Nisha has been given to 2,994 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #8,214 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Nisha, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nisha: meaning, origin, and history

Night

Sanskrit

What Nisha means

Nisha means “night”, associated with niśā.

Origin, language, and formation

Nisha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,994 girls were recorded with the name Nisha between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,244 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,471 in 2020 to #8,214 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,805 in 2015 to #8,214 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 Nisha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,214
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nisha 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nisha was born before 1991 — so the typical Nisha is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,994
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (846).

Is Nisha 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
−2,120
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−743
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+591
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1984 (104)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,244
1984

Spellings of Nisha

Nisha is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 55.9% against Nisha's 0.17%.

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 Nisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Nisha was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 68,453 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Nisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nisha around the world

Where Nisha 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1984–2007
    #744
    in 2007
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2002
    #286
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    2003–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1986–2014
    #7,834
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1980–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Nisha

People whose public names include Nisha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nisha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nisha. Linked forms have their own page here.

NisaAnisha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nisha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,214
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 743
Best rank ever
#1,244
1984
Peak year
1984
104 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,994
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Nisha

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

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Names with a curve like Nisha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nisha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AleishaChanellAkilahShanelKeraRosioChasidyChassityDenaeYaniraDionnaLakia

Sibling names for Nisha

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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