Entry № 7483 · Sanskrit origin

Nimisha Nimisha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nee-MEE-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Moment / twinkle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "moment / twinkle".

Nimisha is from the Sanskrit Nimiṣā.

Moment / twinkle — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

निमिषा
Transliteration
Nimiṣā
Pronunciation
/ niːˈmiː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nimisha stands.

Nimisha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nimishas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hindu nimeṣa / kālacakra
Sanskrit moment twinkle + nimeṣa unit of time + Bhagavata Purana time-measurement + 18 nimeṣa = 1 kāṣṭhā + 30 kāṣṭhā = 1 kalā + Hindu kālacakra time-wheel
Hindu cosmology

Names connected to Nimisha.

The number behind Nimisha.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nimisha reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.