Neisha

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Neisha by the numbers

Neisha was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 48 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Neisha

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Neisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Nishanight13 in the US (2017)
  • Naisha46 in the US (2017)
  • Nessaa form of Vanessa or Agnes; not pure17 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Neilachampion; a form of Niamh32 in the US (2017)
  • Nishkanight, darkness, evening5 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Nerissafrom the sea; from nereus the sea god15 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Neisha

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