How Many People Are Named Nishant?
people named Nishant are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 570,592 people in the US has this name
Based on 615 babies named Nishant in Social Security records from 1979 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
27 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "night's end, dawn" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Nishant in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Nishant alive today is about 24 years old, and 68% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 32 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Nishant first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 2001, to 27 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Nishant has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #3,062, in 1982.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #3,062 (1982) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,090 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Nishant alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Nishant were born in California than in any other state: about 54 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nishant was given about 4.6 times as often in California.
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