Nadirah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nadirah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 64th most common given name. Recorded meaning: 1 Ё rare; precious; (female).
- USUnited States1 in 459K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 459K (inferred from the name graph)
725 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1 Ё rare; precious; (female)
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadirah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 725 | 1 in 459K | 725 | Nadirah | 173 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | — | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | — | Nadirah | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | — | Nadirah | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | — | Nadirah | 15 |
| MR Mauritania | #64 | — | — | — | Nadirah | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | — | — | — | Nadirah | 2 |
725 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Nadirah 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.
Costly,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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)
- Nadirah McKenithb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 725 | #15,769 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 26 | — |
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 Nadirah mean, and where does it come from?
- 1 Ё rare; precious; (female) Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Nadirah a male or female name?
- Nadirah 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 Nadirah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 725 people named Nadirah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadirah.
- Where is Nadirah most common?
- Nadirah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 459 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nadirah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 725 people named Nadirah in 2020, about 1 in 459 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadirah compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Nadirah is the 64th most common given name of 605 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadirahThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nadirah” — the 64th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.