Nad
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: over, above
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nad is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 73K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
782 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovakia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nod in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from as. nadha 'favor, grace'; often merged with NAND
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nad is read(measured from records)
Nad is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nad in Arabic.
- Czech13%
over, above
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish7.0%
denotes location; above, over
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 782 | 1 in 1.7M | 782 | Nad | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Nad | 20 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 809K | — | Nod | 3 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Nad | 85 |
| CZ Czechia | 103 | 1 in 104K | 103 | Nad | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Nad | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 31 | 1 in 136K | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | 2 |
782 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nad is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from as. nadha 'favor, grace'; often merged with NAND
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In zlw-ocs, denotes movement; to over, to above
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-slv, denotes motion; to above, to over
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, over, above (with no change of position, answering the question gdjȅ/gdȅ)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nad come from?
- from as. nadha 'favor, grace'; often merged with NAND Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Nad mean?
- In Czech, over, above
- In which country does Nad have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 782 people named Nad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nad.
- How common is the name Nad?
- In India, the national register counted 782 people named Nad, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.