Nadja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nadja (m.fl. former) har flera ursprung
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nadjaː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.9Kas Nadia(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.9Kas Nadia
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K
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 Nadja 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Nadia, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nadya in ID Indonesia, MA Morocco, נדיה in FR France and Nàdia in TN Tunisia.
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)
Nadja (m.fl. former) har flera ursprung. Det kan vara ett ryskt namn, ursprungligen en smekform till Nadeschda ’hopp’, men kan också vara arabiskt och då betyda ’fuktig; daggig’. En känd namnbärare är den yazidiska människorättsaktivisten och Nobelpristagaren Nadia Murad Basée Taha (f. 1993). I den rikssvenska almanackan 8 april och i den finlandssvenska 9 augusti.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #283 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Nadya | 162 |
| FR France | — | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 872 | 74K | נדיה | 13 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | — | Nadya | 108 |
| US United States | — | 56,039as Nadia | 1 in 5.9K | 56K | Nadja | 476 |
| PL Poland | — | 55,625as Nadia | 1 in 688 | 56K | — | 6 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1.9K | Nàdia | 65 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,676 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.7K | Nadja | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); SURS — resident population given 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)
Nadja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Slavic diminutive of Nadejda; 'hope'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Danish, a female given name from Russian, a less common spelling of Nadia
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nadja Tillerb. 1929ATAustrian actress (1929–2023)
- Nadja Reginb. 1931RSSerbian actress (1931-2019)
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenbergb. 1961USItalian musician
- Nadja Engelbrechtb. 1961DEGerman actress
- Nadja Auermannb. 1971DEGerman model
- Nadja Uhlb. 1972DEGerman actress
- Nadeshda Brennickeb. 1973DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Nadja Beckerb. 1978DEGerman actress
- Nadja Benaissab. 1982DEGerman singer
- Nadya Dorofeevab. 1990UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer, fashion designer, blogger and 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 80 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.7K | #150 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.7K | #284 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,822 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 257 | #896 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 257 | #896 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2015 | 180 | #3,329 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2023 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #8,822 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Nadja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 thousand people named Nadia in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nadja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nadja is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Nadja?
- A machine transcription gives /nadjaː/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Nadja mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nadja (m.fl. former) har flera ursprung.
- Is Nadja a male or female name?
- Nadja 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 Nadja?
- In the etymology graph, Nadine, Nada and Nadège are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Nadja?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,676 people named Nadja in 2025, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadja compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nadja is the 283rd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadjaThe 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, “Nadja” — the 283rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.