Nissim
#4,817 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nissim has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #4,817 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Nissim, 2025
1 in 158,000
Nissim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nissim?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,817
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nissim 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nissim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nissims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nissim was born before 2014 — so the typical Nissim is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 32.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 293
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Nissim 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
- +181
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,711
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,504
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.63×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (21)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Nissim
Nissim is not the most common spelling — Nassir is, with 77.2% against Nissim's 22.8%.
- Nassir77.2%993
- Nissim22.8%293
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 Nissim is used
Across 1910–2025, Nissim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 166,313 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2New Jersey1 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. Nissim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nissim around the world
Where Nissim 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.
- France1918–2025#6,121in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nissim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nissim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nissim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.