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Nissa

#16,606 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Nisa

Nissa has been given to 1,532 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #16,606 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Nissa, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nissa: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nisa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nissa means

Nissa is a variant of Nisa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nissa is used in Indonesian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nissa → Nisa. The family’s meaning is “women”, recorded in Malay with the source elements nisāʔ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nisa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,532 girls were recorded with the name Nissa between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,466 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,857 in 2020 to #16,606 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,967 in 2015 to #16,606 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 Nissa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,606
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nissa 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nissas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nissa was born before 1985 — so the typical Nissa is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,532
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (527).

Is Nissa 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
−5,739
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+251
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,639
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.4%
Peak was 1974 (68)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,466
1974

Spellings of Nissa

Nissa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 64.4% against Nissa's 0.10%.

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 Nissa is used

Across 1910–2025, Nissa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 273,865 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Nissa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nissa around the world

Where Nissa 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
    2000–2010
    #4,688
    in 2010
  • France
    1973–2025
    #2,281
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1994
    #1,986
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1983–2009
    #535
    in 2009

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

Nissa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,606
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 251
Best rank ever
#1,466
1974
Peak year
1974
68 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,532
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Nissa

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

NishaNisaNissiNessaDessaNyssaNishkaAissaLissaAnyssaArissaIssaLyssaBrissaAnessaAlessaJessaHadassaInessaAryssaNisreenJalyssaNerissaNishi

Sibling names for Nissa

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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