Nishi
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nishi has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 2008, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Nishi, 2019
1 in 579,000
Nishi 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nishi?
Nishi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nishi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nishi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nishis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nishi was born before 2007 — so the typical Nishi is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 52.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 247
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (129).
Is Nishi 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2008 (25)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nishi
Nishi is not the most common spelling — Nikki is, with 27.8% against Nishi'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 Nishi is used
Across 1910–2025, Nishi was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,238,771 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2New 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. Nishi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nishi around the world
Where Nishi 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 & Wales1997–2014#5,691in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nishi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nishi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nishi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.