Nadežda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nad̪eʐd̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadežda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 268(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 299
- UAUkraine≈1 in 67as Надія
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 Nadežda 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #51 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 268 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 named Надежда, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Надежда in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Надія in UA Ukraine, Naděžda in CZ Czechia and Nadejda in MD Moldova.
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 transliteration of the Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadežda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #25 | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 96 | #14 | Надежда | 201 |
| UA Ukraine | #21 | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 67 | listed | Надія | 87 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #18 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 234 | 9.3K | Надежда | 54 |
| BY Belarus | #31 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 171 | — | Надежда | 37 |
| CZ Czechia | #234 | 35,786 | 1 in 299 | 36K | Naděžda | 60 |
| MD Moldova | #39 | 32,751as Nadejda | 1 in 103 | 33K | Nadejda | 40 |
| LV Latvia | #255 | 7,030 | 1 in 268 | 7K | Nadezhda | 22 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; MVČR — living population register 2017; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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)
Nadežda 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 Latvian, Līvānu novada Rudzātu pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Nadzežda" bijušais nosaukums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Nadezhda Krupskaiab. 1869RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary and politician (1869–1939)
- Nadežda Petrovićb. 1873RSSerbian artist (1873-1915)
- Nadezhda Mandelstamb. 1899RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer and educator
- Nadezhda Alliluyevab. 1901AZnot in their usual namesecond wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadezhda Chizhovab. 1945RUnot in their usual nameSoviet athlete
- Nadezhda Pavlovab. 1956RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian ballet dancer
- Nadezhda Markinab. 1959RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
- Nadia Petrovab. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Nadieżda Michałkowab. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Nadezhda Tolokonnikovab. 1989RUnot in their usual nameRussian political activist and musician
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 7K | #60 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 226 | #906 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 113 | #999 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nadežda mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nadežda?
- A machine transcription gives /nad̪eʐd̪a/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Nadežda a male or female name?
- Nadežda 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 Nadežda?
- In the etymology graph, Nadine, Nadezhda and Nadja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nadežda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Надежда in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nadežda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nadežda is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 268 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nadežda?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 35,786 people named Nadežda, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Nadežda compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nadežda is the 25th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nade%C5%BEdaThe 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, “Nadežda” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.