Nishat

Girls' name

Energetic, lively

Nishat has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2002, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nishat, 2016

1 in 524,000

Nishat over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nishat: meaning, origin, and history

Energetic, lively

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nishat means

Nishat means “energetic, lively”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nishat is used in Arabic and Bengali.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ni.ˈʃaːtˤ/ for Nishat.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 girls were recorded with the name Nishat between 1993 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2002; its best national rank was #6,054 in 2002.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Nishat?

Nishat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 524,000; 7 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 253,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 363,362 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Nishat 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nishat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nishats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nishat was born before 2002 — so the typical Nishat is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 167; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Nishat 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: 0%; Peak was 2002 (19)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,054; 2002

Spellings of Nishat

Nishat is not the most common spelling — Aisha is, with 35.9% against Nishat's 0.22%.

Aisha35.9%26,933
Tisha12.7%9,552
Kisha8.9%6,652
Isha6.9%5,151
Anisha6.1%4,546
Misha5.7%4,255
Nisha4.0%2,994
Lisha3.2%2,388

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 Nishat is used

Across 1910–2025, Nishat was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 231,600 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 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. Nishat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nishat around the world

Where Nishat 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
1996–2017
#4,063
in 2017
Canada
2007–2007
#3,117
in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nishat by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,054; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 19 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 167
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Nishat

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

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Sibling names for Nishat

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

Iyana Alize Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Anastacia

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Alexandre Jaylon Jaylin

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