Nisha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nisha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nisha: Recorded since 1996, it reached #286 in 2002, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#286highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#499
1997	#604
1998	#497
1999	#736
2000	#524
2001	#504
2002	#620
2003	#630
2004	#772
2005	#1121
2006	#855
2007	#1102
2008	#1065
2009	#1411
2010	#1294
2011	#2150
2012	#2969
2013	#1864
2014	#2862
2015	#3252
2016	#3214
2017	#4063
2020	#5493
2021	#3192
2023	#5687
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2862 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #499 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2001–2002
Highest recorded position: #286 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2001–2002).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nisha appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 655 births with the name.

Nisha across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nisha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#499 (1996)	#497 (1998)	#5891 (2024)	26 of 29	655 (1996–2024)	58 (2001)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#490 (2003)	#490 (2003)	#876 (2014)	6 of 12	26 (2003–2014)	6 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#343 (2001)	#286 (2002)	#286 (2002)	2 of 2	7 (2001–2002)	4 (2002)

Nisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nisha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	184	4 of 10	46
2000sbusiest	369	10 of 10	37
2010s	86	8 of 10	11
2020s	16	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 37 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 25, from 56 to 31.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nisha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #286 in Northern Ireland in 2002.

Nisha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1864	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1294	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1065	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1102	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#855	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#772	36	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#630	46	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#620	44	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#504	58	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#524	54	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#736	31	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#497	56	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#499	55	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#286	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#343	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #286, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 58 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 7 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Nisa · #1332, 29y
Nishaan · #1923, 22y
Nishan · #1850, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cheyanne · #286, 26y
Kamile · #286, 23y
Mischa · #286, 29y
Dougie · #287, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cheyanne · #286, 26y
Evangeline · #286, 30y
Mischa · #286, 29y
Dougie · #287, 26y

Nisha was ranked #286 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nisha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nisha without appearing here.

Nisha moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4063 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Nisha

Francis Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1863.
Janice Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3192 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1959.
Janet Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3192 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.

Moved the opposite way to Nisha

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Nisha

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nisha went from #499 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #286 in Northern Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nisha

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Popularity journey

Nisha across 3 official records

Nisha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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