Nisan as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Nisan

What is the meaning of the name Nisan ?

The baby name Nisan is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /niˈsan/ (Hebrew, Turkish); English variants: /ˈniːsən/ — "NEE-sən" or "nee-SAHN".

Nisan is Hebrew in Origin.

Nisan is a unisex given name taken from the name of a month in the Semitic calendars. In Hebrew (Nisan/Nisán), it denotes the first month of the religious year, aligned with spring and the festival of Passover. The term comes via Aramaic from Akkadian Nisānu, itself probably from Sumerian nisag, “first fruits,” giving the name senses of renewal, budding, and first produce.

As a personal name it appears in Jewish communities from the medieval period onward and remains in use in Israel and the diaspora, typically for boys but not exclusively. In Turkish, Nisan means April and is also used as a feminine name; in Armenian and Levantine Arabic settings, Nīsān is chiefly the month name but sometimes adopted as a given name. Variants and spellings include Nisan, Nissan, Nisán (Ladino/Spanish), and Nīsān (Arabic); not to be confused with Armenian Nishan/Nişan (“sign”).