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My name is Nissa. I was born in 1969. Why I was named this is a true mystery. My parents had no baby books and my father says to this day that Nissa was never even on the table and he had never even heard it before. He went downstairs to smoke a cigarette and came back up and birth certificate was already filled out. When he asked my mother why she had named me that she told him she had promised the elf she would. My mother and father were total 60s generation and I was at Woodstock (in the womb). I weighed 5.3 pounds and had pointed ears. She told me I was small and elf-like and thats what my name was supposed to mean, in honor of the promise she made to the "elf" before I was born. I hated it growing up and in middle school refused to answer to it any longer. I have been called by my middle name ever since. I even sign my legal documents N. Middle name.

Personal experiences with the name Nissa

My name is Nissa. The name is Norwegian. However i am not at all Norwegian nor is anyone in my family. My Grandmother picked my name out of a Baby Book in 1970 when i was born. I couldn't believe that the name Nissa was in a Baby Book in 70' because as i grew older i looked everywhere for my name including many, many Baby Books and only a few had the name Nissa. When i was 9yrs old i noticed a school friend had a pencil with their name printed on it. I thought that was so cool. I wanted pencils with my name on them too. So i looked, and looked, and looked. I found many pencils with names on them but none of the names were MY name Nissa. I was sad. My parents even went to several stores but never found ones with my name on them. Later that same year on Christmas morning i reached into my stocking and pulled out a pack of RED PENCILS, and my name NISSA was printed on each pencil. My parents went to a printing store with a package of pencils and they printed my name Nissa on every pencil. Best Christmas ever! As years passed, i often saw personalized items, such as key chains, with names on them. But once again, Nissa, wasn't one of the names that i could find. I didn't start seeing the name Nissa personalized on keychains and such, until my late teens and still pretty hard to find. I've seen names that are close to Nissa though. Names like Nessa, or Nyssa, or Nesa and even Neesha. But as for the Baby Name Books, the name Nissa is in quite allot of them now.

Nicknames for Nissa

Niss or Nis

Meanings and history of the name Nissa

Nissa has many separate origins: a form of the Indian name Nisha ("night"), a form of the Hebrew Nissim "wonders," or the Arabic word for woman. Or simply a modern English invention!
Nissa is also a Norwegian name. Meaning, "Mischievous Elf" or "Christmas Elf" In Norway and Sweden countries, the people celebrate 'Nissaman' during Christmas by putting Milk in the Attic for the 'Nissaman'. Nissaman are very Mischevious and stories say, "Who spilled the cats milk?" "The Nissaman did."

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Nissa in song, story & screen

My Daughters name is Nissa. I picked her name out when I was 13 yrs old. I had seen a movie called the forbidden dance. Made in the 80's. Nissa was a rain forest princess trying to save her forest from being tore down. I am not sure of the actresses name though. But I knew when I heard the name that 13 yrs later I would name my daughter that. I have never met anyone else with her name.