MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nishi mean?
Nishi comes from niś, the Sanskrit word for night, through its form niśi, at night. Poetic use of this word gives the name a clear nocturnal setting.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निशि
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
निशी
Letter-by-letter: niśī
8,373 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nishi in Indian usage
6,964 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (84.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,854 records (84.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,110 records (15.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 297 |
| 1960s | 783 |
| 1970s | 1,278 |
| 1980s | 2,246 |
| 1990s | 2,210 |
| Other decades | 150 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 1,498 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,439 |
| Kerala | 748 |
| Delhi | 557 |
| Jharkhand | 519 |
| Haryana | 475 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 333 |
| Odisha | 258 |
| Assam | 243 |
| Tripura | 202 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 141 |
| Rajasthan | 123 |
| Uttarakhand | 120 |
| Other states | 308 |
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
- Monier-Williams, niśi, p. 560,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, niś, p. 560,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.