Nadia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Muslim name (Sudan): 'full of dew'; also Eastern European/Nadine: 'hope'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nadia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 5.9K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 476
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 Nadia 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 476 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 476 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nadja in US United States, SI Slovenia, Nadya in ID Indonesia, MA Morocco, נדיה in FR France and Nàdia in TN Tunisia.
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)
Muslim name (Sudan): 'full of dew'; also Eastern European/Nadine: 'hope'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadia 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 | #283 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Nadya | 162 |
| FR France | — | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 872 | 74K | נדיה | 13 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 476 | — | Nadya | 108 |
| US United States | — | 56,039 | 1 in 5.9K | 56K | Nadja | 476 |
| PL Poland | — | 55,625 | 1 in 688 | 56K | — | 6 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1.9K | Nàdia | 65 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,676as Nadja | 1 in 1.3K | 1.7K | Nadja | 7 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); SURS — resident population given 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)
Nadia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Slavic name from the root for 'hope', used as a short form of Nadezhda.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French and English spelling of Russian Nadya (a pet form of Nadezhda ‘hope’). This name has enjoyed a considerable vogue in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. Variants: Nancie, Nanci. Short forms: Nan, Nance.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Time of promise
as a nameThe book of African names
In French, Forme espagnole de Nadège; d’origine slave via le russe, liée à « espérance ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Pet form of Nadejda; 'hope'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Nadia Boulangerb. 1887FRFrench musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)
- Nadezhda Alliluyevab. 1901AZnot in their usual namesecond wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadezhda Olizarenkob. 1953UAnot in their usual nameSoviet-Ukrainian middle-distance runner
- Nadia Comănecib. 1961RORomanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist (born 1961)
- Nadia Alib. 1980USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Nadia Meiherb. 1982UAUkrainian singer
- Nadia Nadimb. 1988AFDanish footballer
- Nadia Hilkerb. 1988DEGerman actress
- Nadia Muradb. 1993IQYazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
- Nadia Battoclettib. 2000ITItalian athlete
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 139 sources across 80 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 74K | #710 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 56K | #834 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 56K | #89 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 56K | #89 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1980 | 1.9K | #9 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 531 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 122 | #1,334 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 114 | #686 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 87 | #834 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #23,607 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Nadia mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim name (Sudan): 'full of dew'; also Eastern European/Nadine: 'hope' Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Nadia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 143 thousand people named Nadia in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadya.
- How common is the name Nadia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 56,039 people named Nadia in 2020, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadia compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nadia is the 283rd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadiaThe 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, “Nadia” — the 283rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.