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Nadira

#7,390 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Nadir

Nadira has been given to 1,035 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #7,390 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Nadira, 2025

1 in 221,000

Nadira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadira: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Nadir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadira means

Nadira is a feminine form of Nadir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nadira → Nadir. The family’s proposed meaning is “rare, trivial”, recorded in English with the source elements nazīr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nadir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,035 girls were recorded with the name Nadira between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,103 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,845 in 2020 to #7,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,645 in 2015 to #7,390 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 Nadira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,390
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadira 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadira was born before 2001 — so the typical Nadira is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,035
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Choose a decade

2000s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (306).

Is Nadira 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
+94
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,455
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,255
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2000 (45)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,103
2000

Spellings of Nadira

Nadira is not the most common spelling — Nadine is, with 18.3% against Nadira's 0.36%.

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 Nadira is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadira was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 202,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 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. Nadira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadira around the world

Where Nadira 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1953–2024
    #5,832
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2009
    #2,562
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Nadira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,455
Best rank ever
#3,103
2000
Peak year
2000
45 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,035
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Nadira

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

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Sibling names for Nadira

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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