Nissan — #11253 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nissan

The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Nissan between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nissan currently holds the #11253 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Nissan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nissan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nissan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nissan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nissan 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 88 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.