Nisiah
#7,533 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nisiah has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #7,533 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nisiah, 2025
1 in 301,000
Nisiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nisiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,533
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nisiah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nisiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nisiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nisiah was born before 2025 — so the typical Nisiah is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Nisiah 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (11)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nisiah
Nisiah is not the most common spelling — Isaiah is, with 56.7% against Nisiah's <0.01%.
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.
Nisiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nisiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nisiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.