Nada
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a brook; a river; a stream; a species of Reed (Arundo tibialis)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɑdɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nada is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 159(measured from records)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 503
- RSSerbia≈1 in 520
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nada itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нада in MK North Macedonia.
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)
a brook; a river; a stream; a species of Reed (Arundo tibialis).
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nada 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #44 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 503 | listed | Nada | 147 |
| MA Morocco | #117 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 814 | — | Nada | 90 |
| HR Croatia | #26 | 26,660 | 1 in 159 | 27K | Nada | 80 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #139 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Nada | 137 |
| DZ Algeria | #186 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Nada | 30 |
| RS Serbia | #69 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | listed | Nada | 56 |
| SI Slovenia | #212 | 5,612 | 1 in 375 | 5.6K | Nada | 25 |
| MK North Macedonia | #352 | 4,969as Нада | 1 in 428 | 5K | Нада | 9 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Nada is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, hope
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
» Ganefa (N); Krsna (N); Nrsimha (N); Siva (N)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
from Alexandria/Port-Said/Vevey-Montreux
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Nada kan vara ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’dagg’, men är också ett sydslaviskt namn med betydelsen ’hopp’. Namnet användes även i Sverige runt förra sekelskiftet, då kanske som en variant av → Nadja.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Serbo-Croatian, spes; žensko ime
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nada Fiorellib. 1919ITItalian actress (1919-1984)
- Nada Klaićb. 1920HRCroatian historian, linguist, translator (1920–1988)
- Nada Dimićb. 1923HRYugoslav partisan (1923–1942)
- Nada Inadab. 1929JPJapanese writer and psychiatrist
- Nada Abrusb. 1951HRactor
- Nada Malanimab. 1953ITItalian singer and writer (1953-)
- Nada Topčagićb. 1953RSBosnian singer
- Ana Bekutab. 1959RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer
- Nada Šarginb. 1977RSSerbian actress
- Nada Macankovićb. 1982RSSerbian film, television and theater actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 27K | #18 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 22K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5.6K | #42 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5.5K | #92 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Nada mean, and where does it come from?
- a brook; a river; a stream; a species of Reed (Arundo tibialis). Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- How do you pronounce Nada?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɑdɑ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Nada a male or female name?
- Nada is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Nada?
- In the etymology graph, Nadine, Nadezhda and Nadja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 207 thousand people named Nada in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nada.
- Where is Nada most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nada is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 159 people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nada?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 26,660 people named Nada in 2021, about 1 in 159 residents.
- How common is Nada compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Nada is the 44th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadaThe 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, “Nada” — the 44th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.