Nadege
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nadege is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 839(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K
- USUnited States1 in 191K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 839 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadege 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #48 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 839 | listed | Nadege | 32 |
| FR France | #333 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 41K | Nadege | 304 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Nadege | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #366 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Nadege | 13 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #37 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Nadege | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,744 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | Nadege | 189 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
Nadege is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Misspelling of Nadège.
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)
- Nadège Lefebvreb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Nadège Beausson-Diagneb. 1972FRFrench actress
- Nadège Abomangolib. 1975CGFrench politician
- Nadège Loiseaub. 1977FRFrench film director (1977-)
- Nadège Azzazb. 1981FRFrench politician
- Nadège Lacroixb. 1986CHSwiss actor
- Nadege Bobillierb. 1988FRfigure skater
- Nadege Essohb. 1990CIIvorian footballer
- Nadège Cisséb. 1997CIIvorian footballer
- Nadege AugustUSAmerican 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2010 | 41K | #2,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #8,334 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Nadege mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.
- Is Nadege a male or female name?
- Nadege 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.
- In which country does Nadege have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Nadege in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadege.
- How common is the name Nadege?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,744 people named Nadege in 2020, about 1 in 191 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadege compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Nadege is the 48th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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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, “Nadege” — the 48th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.