MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nisar mean?
Nisar comes through Persian and Urdu nisar, an offering or something scattered in honour of another. In personal naming it carries the familiar sense of being devoted or ready to make an offering.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निसार
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nisar in Indian usage
8,131 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 790 records (9.7%).
- Recorded as male: 7,341 records (90.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 276 |
| 1960s | 664 |
| 1970s | 2,019 |
| 1980s | 3,892 |
| 1990s | 1,074 |
| Other decades | 206 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 5,633 |
| Maharashtra | 1,178 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 504 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 437 |
| Other states | 379 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001