How popular is the name Nisha?

Nisha ranks 1,912th among girls' names in US records, with 5,916 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 158.

Is Nisha a unisex name?

No. Nisha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1984, when 213 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Niesha, Nesha, Neesha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,912 of girl names

Pronounced N AY1 SH AA1 (ARPABET)

Nisha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1961. It has been given to 5,916 children — the 1,912th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 158 births across the past decade, against a peak of 213 in a single year. That peak was in 1984.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Niesha, Nesha and Neesha — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Nisha and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Nisha?: Nisha ranks 1,912th among girls' names in US records, with 5,916 births since 1961. Over the past decade it accounts for 158.
Is Nisha a unisex name?: No. Nisha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Nisha most popular?: 1984, when 213 children were given the name. It has been in use for 64 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Nisha spelled?: Niesha, Nesha, Neesha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.