Nadine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from French, a French diminutive form of Nadia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nadine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 50th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 745(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 862
- BEBelgium≈1 in 968
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 745 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nalini in AT Austria.
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)
French diminutive of Nadia/Nadezhda, from Slavic 'hope'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nadine is read(measured from records)
Nadine 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.
- English41%
A female given name from French, a French diminutive form of Nadia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French27%
French diminutive of Nadia/Nadezhda, from Slavic 'hope'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
a female given name, a diminutive of Nadia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; forme liée au russe Nadejda.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- German19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nadine in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nadine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #175 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 862 | 132K | Nadine | 351 |
| US United States | — | 38,200 | 1 in 8.7K | 38K | Nadine | 335 |
| CM Cameroon | #50 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 745 | — | Nadine | 33 |
| EG Egypt | #765 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Nadine | 102 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 64 | Nadine | 121 |
| BE Belgium | #152 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 968 | 11 | Nadine | 106 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 981 | 9.8K | Nalini | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | #494 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 18 | Nadine | 86 |
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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Nadine 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.
2 French elaboration of Nadia. Many names of Russian origin became established in France and elsewhere in the early 20th century as a result of the popularity of the Ballet Russe, established in Paris by Diaghilev in 1909. Nanette ° Elaboration of Nan, with the addition of the French feminine diminutive suffix -ette.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
French elaboration of NADIA. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Nadine Gordimerb. 1923ZASouth African writer (1923–2014)
- Suzanne Vegab. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
- Alanis Morissetteb. 1974CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-American singer (born 1974)
- Nadine Labakib. 1974LBLebanese actress and film director
- Nadine Velazquezb. 1978USAmerican actress and model
- Nadine Angererb. 1978DEGerman footballer
- Nadine Coyleb. 1985GBIrish singer and actress
- Nadine Keßlerb. 1988DEGerman soccer player
- Nadine Sierrab. 1988USAmerican operatic soprano
- Nadine Beilerb. 1990ATAustrian singer
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 110 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 132K | #636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38K | #1,083 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 9.8K | #361 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 128 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 48 | #1,083 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 14 | #381 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 6 | #1,170 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Where does the name Nadine come from?
- French diminutive of Nadia/Nadezhda, from Slavic 'hope'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What does the name Nadine mean?
- In English, A female given name from French, a French diminutive form of Nadia.
- Is Nadine a male or female name?
- Nadine 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 Nadine?
- In the etymology graph, Nada, Nadezhda and Nadja are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nadine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Nadine in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadine.
- How common is the name Nadine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 38,200 people named Nadine in 2020, about 1 in 8.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadine compared with other names?
- In France, Nadine is the 175th most common given name of 754,146 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, “Nadine” — the 175th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.