Nisa
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 97 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,736since 1953
Nisa over time
Rank among girls' names. Nisa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #4,677 | 31 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #4,380 | 34 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #3,809 | 38 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 |
| 2002 | #3,103 | 46 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 |
| 1997 | #2,659 | 47 |
| 1996 | #3,028 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 |
| 1994 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 1992 | #1,928 | 72 |
| 1991 | #1,575 | 97 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 43 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 |
| 1972 | #3,276 | 19 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nisa! It came in at #5,673, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nisa is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#2,075 · 1 in 15,666
Best ever in a state: #695 in Maryland, 1992.
Show every state
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| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
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See more about Nisa
- 1,525 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #6,546)
- 221 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #6,546)
- 2,557 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #6,546)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1991 at #1,575 (97 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,330 girls born in 1991 were named Nisa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.0% of all girls named Nisa (539) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 22 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,638 |
| 1960s | 81 | #3,952 (1965) | #5,105 |
| 1970s | 174 | #2,856 (1970) | #3,868 |
| 1980s | 146 | #3,983 (1985) | #5,205 |
| 1990s | 539 | #1,575 (1991) | #2,547 |
| 2000s | 391 | #2,708 (2000) | #3,832 |
| 2010s | 262 | #3,989 (2015) | #5,248 |
| 2020s | 121 | #5,021 (2024) | #5,975 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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