Nishaan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ɲiʃɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nishaan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 152K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 496K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
≈370 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nishaan 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Nishaan | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Nishaan | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Nishaan | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | Nishaan | 1 |
| US United States | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 28M | 9 | Nishaan | 26 |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nishaan | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 18 | #12,499 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 9 | #30,513 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nishaan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲiʃɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nishaan a male or female name?
- Nishaan is a male 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.
- In which country does Nishaan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 372 people named Nishaan in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nishaan.
- How common is the name Nishaan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 18 people named Nishaan, about 1 in 960 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nishaan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nishaanThe 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, “Nishaan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.