Nisha
Nisha is a girl name of Sanskrit origin, meaning Night.
What Nisha means
Night.
Nisha sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Nisha comes from
Sanskrit names draw on a devotional and literary tradition thousands of years old. Many are epithets of deities or qualities from classical texts, which is why their meanings tend to be abstract virtues rather than objects.
Nisha is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Nisha?
You will not find Nisha in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Nisha
We group Nisha under Moon. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Moon
Names like Nisha
These share Nisha's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Layla — Night; dark beauty.
- Luna — The moon.
- Nguyet — The moon.
- Nyx — Night; goddess of night.
- Tsuki — The moon.
- Delia — Of Delos; the moon goddess.
- Diana — Divine; goddess of the moon and hunt.
- Leila — Night; dark beauty.
- Marama — The moon; light.
- Selene — Goddess of the moon.
- Stellaluna — Star and moon.
- Trang — Bright moon; elegant.