diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a0517db714b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, blas
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "nan";
+  version = "3.5.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0bp8zl50f8qj5sivl88kjdswm035v4li33fiq3v1gmh0pvgbcw7a";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    blas
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/nan/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "A statistics and machine learning toolbox for data with and w/o missing values";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix
index b19a2897e0d..2542d0d6551 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ makeScope newScope (self:
 
     mvn = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/mvn { };
 
+    nan = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/nan { };
+
     signal = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/signal { };
 
     symbolic = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/symbolic {