Nishaan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nishaan has been given to 88 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nishaan, 2024
1 in 371,000
Nishaan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nishaan?
Nishaan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nishaan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nishaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nishaans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nishaan was born before 2016 — so the typical Nishaan is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 88
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Nishaan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2017 (11)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nishaan
Nishaan is not the most common spelling — Vihaan is, with 22.8% against Nishaan's 0.36%.
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.
Nishaan around the world
Where Nishaan 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 & Wales1996–2025#2,664in 2025
- Canada2006–2024#2,550in 2024
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nishaan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nishaan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nishaan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.