Nisan

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nisan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 12K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 60K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,800 people, est.

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Cyprus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nişan in AZ Azerbaijan.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

Yılın dördüncü ayı.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Nisan is read(measured from records)

Nisan is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Turkish71%

    Yılın dördüncü ayı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • English8.2%

    Jewish month

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Hindi5.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Nisan in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nisan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nisan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈4,800 est.≈1 in 17K—Nisan57
PK Pakistan≈440 est.≈1 in 527K—Nisan7
PH Philippines≈260 est.≈1 in 425K—Nisan8
US United States2121 in 1.6M148Nisan29
IL Israel≈140 est.≈1 in 60K—Nisan5
AZ Azerbaijan≈130 est.≈1 in 78K5Nişan4
SY Syria≈120 est.≈1 in 157K—Nisan6
CY Cyprus≈100 est.≈1 in 12K—Nisan4

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nisan is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Philippines, Türkiye

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nişan

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Nişan

  • Hebrew given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Iran, Poland, Lebanon

    Also written ניסן, Nişan, Nīsān, Niyṣan

  • Thai given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Sweden, Philippines, India

    Also written นิสันต์, นิสันติ์, นิสันต, นสนิท, นิสันติ

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nişan, Nîsān, Niṣan

  • Bangla given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Also written নিশান, Nishaan, Nişan, Nisän

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Nişan

  • Portuguese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Türkiye, India

    Also written Nişan

38 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(measured from records)

Nisan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, tombstone

    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)

18001850190019502000Nissan Blumenthal, b. 1806Nisan Bak, b. 1815Nissan Katzenelson, b. 1862Uri Nissan Gnessin, b. 1879Nissan Rilov, b. 1922Nisan Babalikashvili, b. 1938Yigal Guetta, b. 1966Nisan Katz, b. 1974Nisan Stewart, b. 1974Nisan Dağ, b. 1986

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)

Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Nisan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020124#139,059
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010101#159,712
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Nisan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Nisan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nisan.
What does the name Nisan mean?
In English, The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.
Is Nisan a male or female name?
Nisan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
How common is the name Nisan?
In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Nisan in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.

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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, “Nisan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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