Nadiyah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 23 beginning; happening;
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nədiiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadiyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 417K(measured from records)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 23K
- MRMauritania≈1 in 51K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
23 beginning; happening;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadiyah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | — | 1 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Nadiyah | 30 |
| US United States | — | 798 | 1 in 417K | 795 | Nadiyah | 171 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | Nadiyah | 3 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 2 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Nadiyah | 12 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Nadiyah | 2 |
| MR Mauritania | #176 | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Nadiyah | 1 |
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; the muslim-baby-names-2000 register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the id-github-names 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nadezhda Alliluyevab. 1901AZnot in their usual namesecond wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadiya Svitlychnab. 1936USnot in their usual nameUkrainian dissident (1936–2006)
- Nadia Hiloub. 1953ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli politician
- Nadia Al-Sakkafb. 1977YEnot in their usual nameformer government minister in Yemen; editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times
- Nadia Anjumanb. 1981AFnot in their usual nameAfghan poet (1981–2005)
- Nadiya Hussainb. 1984GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Bangladeshi baker, columnist and author
- Nadia Ghulamb. 1985AFnot in their usual nameAfghan writer
- Nadia Koundab. 1989MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan actress
- Nadia Lalamib. 1990MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan tennis player
- Nadia Muradb. 1993IQnot in their usual nameYazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
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 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 795 | #14,685 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 28 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nadiyah mean, and where does it come from?
- 23 beginning; happening; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Nadiyah?
- A machine transcription gives /nədiiə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nadiyah a male or female name?
- Nadiyah 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 Nadiyah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Nadiyah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nadiyah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 798 people named Nadiyah in 2020, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadiyah compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Nadiyah is the 176th 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/nadiyahThe 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, “Nadiyah” — the 176th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.