Nisa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Аниса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and 3 more, Nita in IN India, BR Brazil, PH Philippines and 2 more, Anisha in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia and 2 more and Anisa in FR France, XK Kosovo, ES Spain and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nisa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name117K records spelled Nisa141 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

  Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla

  Also written Nisha, Neesha, নিশা

• Indonesian given name75K records spelled Nisa9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Türkiye

  Also written 'Nisa, Nisa’, Nisa'', Nisà, Níså

• English given name35K records spelled Nisa19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Germany, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Nisâ, N'Isa, Nïsä, Nişa, Nisa'

• English given name13K records spelled Nisa28 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Türkiye

  Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Nyssa, Nissa, Nysa, Nisã, Nísa

• French given name13K records spelled Nisa11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Spain, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Nasa, N'Isa, Nisâ, Näsã, Nïsä

• Malay given name3.1K records spelled Nisa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, United States

  Languages: Malay, Indonesian

  Also written Nisa'

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• woman; female;

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• In Arabic, women. Al-Nisaa’ clus! ‘The Women’: title of the 4th sura of the Qur’an. aS! 4,5 aSslLus "Your women (wives)

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Romanian, Nice (a coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of nise

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, inflection of nīsus:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1911–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nysab. 150not in their usual namewife of Pharnaces I of Pontus
• Nysa of Cappadociab. 150not in their usual namewife of Ariarathes V of Cappadocia
• Nisa Serezlib. 1928TRTurkish actor (1928–1992)
• Nisa Chevènementb. 1944FRFrench painter and sculptor
• Nisa Sofiya Aksongurb. 2011TRTurkish actor (born 2011)
• Nysanot in their usual namewife of Nicomedes III of Bithynia
• NysaUAnot in their usual namedaughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus
• Nysanot in their usual namedaughter of Nicomedes III of Bithynia
• Nysanot in their usual namewife of Nicomedes IV
• Nisa SalimAUresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 582 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nisa?

We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Nisa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Nisa have the most bearers?

Nisa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled nita.

Where is Nisa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nisa is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 769 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Nisa compared with other names?

In India, Nisa is the 486th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Nisa a male or female name?

Nisa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Nisa mean?

Recorded meaning: 1. Kadın.2. Kur'an-ı Kerim'de IV.