Nissan
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from the name of the Jewish month during which Passover takes place (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Nissan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ornamental name from the name of the Jewish month during which Passover takes place.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nissan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 781 | Nissan | 164 |
| SE Sweden | — | 336 | — | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 46 | — | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 42 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 29 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nissan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Aleppo, Ciudad de Mexico
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Japanese car co.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, river, Sweden
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A Japanese car manufacturer
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Uri Nissan Gnessinb. 1879RUHebrew Russian writer (1879–1913)
- Nissan Rilovb. 1922FRFrench artist
- Nisan Babalikashvilib. 1938GEnot in their usual nameSoviet philologist
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
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nissan mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from the name of the Jewish month during which Passover takes place. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nissan have the most bearers?
- Nissan is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled nissan.
What do you want to know about Nissan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nissanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nissan” — ranked 28872nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.