Nadezhda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "hope"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nədɛzdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadezhda 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.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 89K
- 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 Nadezhda 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 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 named Надежда, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Надежда in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, 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)
"hope."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nadezhda is read(measured from records)
Nadezhda 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.
- Russian71%
"hope."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English7.0%
A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Bulgarian5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nadezhda in Bulgarian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nadezhda 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 | 35,786as Naděžda | 1 in 299 | 36K | Naděžda | 60 |
| MD Moldova | #39 | 32,751as Nadejda | 1 in 103 | 33K | Nadejda | 40 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #99 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Надежда | 21 |
| US United States | — | 3,721 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Nadezhda | 204 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Nadezhda 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.
The Russian vocabulary word ‘hope’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Russian: from the vocabulary word meaning ‘hope’, an important theological virtue. Cognates: Polish: Nadzieja. Czech: Nad da. See also REMÉNYKE Pet forms: Russian: Nadya. Czech: Nad ja .
as a word
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. 1869RURussian revolutionary and politician (1869–1939)
- Nadežda Petrovićb. 1873RSnot in their usual nameSerbian artist (1873-1915)
- Nadezhda Mandelstamb. 1899RURussian writer and educator
- Nadezhda Alliluyevab. 1901AZsecond wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadezhda Chizhovab. 1945RUSoviet athlete
- Nadezhda Pavlovab. 1956RUSoviet and Russian ballet dancer
- Nadezhda Markinab. 1959RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Nadia Petrovab. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Nadieżda Michałkowab. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Nadezhda Tolokonnikovab. 1989RURussian 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 46 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #4,842 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 47 | #1,379 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #4,842 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nadezhda?
- A machine transcription gives /nədɛzdə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Nadezhda mean, and where does it come from?
- "hope." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- Is Nadezhda a male or female name?
- Nadezhda 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 Nadezhda?
- In the etymology graph, Nadine, Nada and Nadège are forms of the same name in other languages; Nadya is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Nadezhda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Надежда in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nadezhda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,721 people named Nadezhda in 2020, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadezhda compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nadezhda 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/nadezhdaThe 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, “Nadezhda” — the 25th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.