Nisa — #5031 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nisa

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,719 babies named Nisa between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nisa currently holds the #5031 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 97 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nisa performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 539 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nisa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 139 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nisa in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nisa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,719 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.