Nissen
#10,379 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nissen has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #10,379 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Nissen, 2025
1 in 474,000
Nissen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nissen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,379
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nissen 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nissen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nissens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nissen was born before 2021 — so the typical Nissen is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 70.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 24
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 70.8% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Nissen 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 2008 (7)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Nissen
Nissen is not the most common spelling — Nasser is, with 60.3% against Nissen's 1.1%.
Where Nissen is used
Across 1910–2025, Nissen was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,110,320 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nissen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nissen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nissen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nissen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.