Nissa
Nissa was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,606 among girls’ names; 1,532 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Nissa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 27 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nissa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nissa?
#16,606 among girls’ names, 2025
Nissa fell from #9,967 in 2015 to #16,606 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
68 babies in 1974, the peak
Nissa peaked in 1974, when 68 girls were given it, #1,466 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,606 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,867 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,904 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,494 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,123 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,857 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,090 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,636 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,169 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,885 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,967 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,831 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,803 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,104 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,048 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,794 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,801 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,900 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,018 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,291 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,062 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,503 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,902 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,245 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,321 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,145 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,403 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,898 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,957 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,833 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,064 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,415 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,846 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,955 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,720 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,872 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,974 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,979 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,231 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,708 | 21.0 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,468 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,490 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,773 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,933 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,049 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,844 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 52 | #1,991 | 32.4 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,798 | 37.2 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,794 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,901 | 32.8 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,976 | 30.9 |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,466 | 46.3 |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,638 | 38.4 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,745 | 33.5 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,706 | 32.5 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,105 | 22.3 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,124 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,494 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nissa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nissa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nissa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nissa, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,532 Americans ever recorded as Nissa. The median Nissa alive today is 40 years old; half are between 27 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,443 people named Nissa (1,443 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,448 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 566 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 485 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 302 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nissa born?
The states with the most babies named Nissa are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 133 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 40 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nissa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,099 babies since 1880, Nissa is the third most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 75 babies (6.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nissa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nissa and names like it
- Compare Nissa and NyssaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNissa peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nissa since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Nissa.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nissa alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.