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Nadja

#9,275 in 2025Girls' name

Hope, through На́дя

Nadja has been given to 1,166 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #9,275 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Nadja, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadja: meaning, origin, and history

Hope, through На́дя

Russian

What Nadja means

Nadja belongs to the name family reached through Nadja → На́дя. Its meaning is “hope”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nadja is used in Danish, Finnish, German, Slovene and Swedish. Its origins include Russian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nadia and На́дя.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Nadja is pronounced /ˈnɑdjɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,166 girls were recorded with the name Nadja between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1996; its best national rank was #2,466 in 1996.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,039 in 2015 to #9,275 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 Nadja?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,275
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadja 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadja was born before 1991 — so the typical Nadja is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (266).

Is Nadja 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
+1,561
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,764
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.2%
Peak was 1996 (52)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,466
1996

Spellings of Nadja

Nadja is not the most common spelling — Ada is, with 28.3% against Nadja's 0.31%.

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 Nadja is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadja was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 319,552 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 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. Nadja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadja around the world

Where Nadja 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
    1996–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • France
    1944–2023
    #6,725
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2016
    #544
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2002–2008
    #2,486
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1950–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nadja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,275
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,466
1996
Peak year
1996
52 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,166
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Nadja

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

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Sibling names for Nadja

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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