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Nisha

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~2,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#7,885 among girls
Births in 2025
13 2,994 since 1880
Typical age
34 years, median

Nisha popularity over time

Nisha rank by birth year, 1961–2025Nisha ranked #6,567 in 1961 and #7,885 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,238, in 1984.#10,000#7,885best #1,238 in 1984198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1961–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Nisha in 1984 than in any other year — 104 of them. 1961 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. As of 2025 the name sits at #7,885, with 13 births that year.

Year on year the rank dropped by 1923.

Babies named Nisha per yearPeaks at 104 births in 1984.104 in 19840198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Nisha?

Roughly 2,900 Nishas are alive in the US right now. That is out of 2,994 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Nisha?

The typical living Nisha is 34 years old. More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Nisha a late 20th-century name.

Your Nisha

Ages of living people named NishaHalf of living Nishas are older than 34 and half younger.median 340204060
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Nisha comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit निशा (“night”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Nisha

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Nisha Ayub Malaysian transgender activist 1979 22
Nisha Agarwal Indian actress 1989 21
Nisha Adhikari Nepalese actress 1986 14
Nisha Ganatra Canadian film director and actress 1974 12
Nisha Rawal Indian actress 1984 10
Nisha Pahuja independent Canadian filmmaker 1978 9
Nisha Chaudhary Member of Indian Parliament 1952–2001 8
Photo credits (4)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Nisha

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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