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Nadezhda

#14,391 in 2025Girls' name

Hope

Nadezhda has been given to 291 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #14,391 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Nadezhda, 2025

1 in 553,000

Nadezhda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadezhda: meaning, origin, and history

Hope

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadezhda means

Nadezhda means “hope”, associated with nadéžda.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian Наде́жда (Nadéžda), from наде́жда (nadéžda, “hope”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nadezhda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nadezhda is used in English.

Nadezhda comes through Russian Наде́жда.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Наде́жда.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 291 girls were recorded with the name Nadezhda between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,416 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,808 in 2020 to #14,391 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,656 in 2015 to #14,391 in 2025.

How common is Nadezhda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,391
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadezhda 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadezhda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadezhdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadezhda was born before 2010 — so the typical Nadezhda is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
291
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Nadezhda 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,583
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,735
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2010 (17)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,416
2010

Where Nadezhda is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadezhda was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

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. Nadezhda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadezhda around the world

Where Nadezhda 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
    2011–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1970–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nadezhda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,391
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,583
Best rank ever
#7,416
2010
Peak year
2010
17 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
291
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nadezhda

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

NadiyahNadiahNadalieNadalynNadaliaNadiraNadaleeNadegeNadxheliNadalynnNadirahNadelynNadeenNadiyaNadinaNadyneNadraNadjaNadarNadelineNadeaneNadyaleeNadeanNadyah

Sibling names for Nadezhda

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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