Nissim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Hebrew male personal name Nissim, meaning ‘miracles’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɪsɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nissim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 746K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 7.5K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 28K
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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from the Hebrew male personal name Nissim, meaning ‘miracles’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nissim 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Nissim | 38 |
| US United States | 446 | 1 in 746K | 442 | Nissim | 151 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 456K | 30 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Nissim | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Nissim | 26 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nissim | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Nissim | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Nissim | 9 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)
Nissim is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
milagres; Roma, Vercelli, Siena, Torino, Genova, Livorno, Pisa, Italia, Monastir, Salonika, south of Hungary, Florence, Jerusalem, Bagdad, Hong Kong, Smyrna, Sofia, Maghreb, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sào Paulo, London, Chile
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
milagres
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Milagro
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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)
- Nissim ben Jacobb. 990TNrabbi and exegete from Ifriqiya (990-1062)
- Nissim of Geronab. 1310ES14th century Talmudist and authority on Jewish law
- Nissim de Camondob. 1892FRFrench officer and pilot (1892-1917)
- Jacques Canettib. 1909FRnot in their usual nameFrench businessman (1909-1997)
- Nissim Rejwanb. 1924ILIsraeli historian, orientalist and journalist (1924-2017)
- Nissim Alonib. 1926ILIsraeli playwright and translator (1926–1998)
- Nissim Zoharb. 1937ILIsraeli actor and scriptwriter
- Meir Mazuzb. 1945ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi
- Nissim Dayanb. 1946ILIsraeli film director
- Gabriel Attalb. 1989FRnot in their usual namePrime Minister of France in 2024
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).
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Nissim mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Hebrew male personal name Nissim, meaning ‘miracles’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nissim?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɪsɪm/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Nissim a male or female name?
- Nissim 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 Nissim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Nissim in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nissim.
- How common is the name Nissim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 446 people named Nissim in 2020, about 1 in 746 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nissimThe 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, “Nissim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.