Meaning not yet researched.
Nisa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,582 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,582 in 1991; #6,759 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nisa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,759 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,582.
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Nisa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,582 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 97 (1991).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Nisa, making it the 6,759th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,652 places from #5,107 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 26 girls named Nisa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,582, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #4,052 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nisa in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 1,736 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 539 babies named Nisa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 218 US girls were named Nisa; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anisa (5,558 babies since 1880), Nisha (2,994 babies since 1880), Nyssa (1,830 babies since 1880) and Nissa (1,532 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Niza are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Niza (148).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nisa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,759 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,107 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,897 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,561 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,868 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,417 | — | — |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,734 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,093 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,424 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,077 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,163 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,138 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,777 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,437 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,758 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,556 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,780 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,562 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,193 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,448 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,101 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,945 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,136 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,548 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,327 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,693 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,186 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,037 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,739 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,663 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,296 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).