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Nada

#4,431 in 2025Girls' name

Hope

Nada has been given to 5,129 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #4,431 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Nada, 2025

1 in 104,000

Nada over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nada: meaning, origin, and history

Hope

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nada means

Nada means “hope”, associated with náda.

Origin, language, and formation

Nada is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nadia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Nada is pronounced /nǎːda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,129 girls were recorded with the name Nada between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2000; its best national rank was #792 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,981 in 2020 to #4,431 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,203 in 2015 to #4,431 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nada?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,431
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nada sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nada was born before 1964 — so the typical Nada is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
11.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,162
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Choose a decade

1930s — 11.7% of all recorded uses (602).

Is Nada rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+15
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−450
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,228
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.0%
Peak was 2000 (78)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#792
1934

Spellings of Nada

Nada is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.8% against Nada's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nada is used

Across 1910–2025, Nada was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 90,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Idaho1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nada has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nada around the world

Where Nada ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–2009
    #783
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    1995–2007
    #705
    in 2007
  • France
    1922–2025
    #758
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #463
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,286
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Nada

People whose public names include Nada, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nada in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nada. Linked forms have their own page here.

NadiaNadayca

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nada by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,431
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 450
Best rank ever
#792
1934
Peak year
2000
78 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,129
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Nada

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Nada

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nada, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nada

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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