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Nadya

#5,852 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Nadya has been given to 2,647 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #5,852 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Nadya, 2025

1 in 158,000

Nadya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadya: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadya means

Nadya has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Nadya

A separate documented entry treats Nadya as a diminutive of Nadezhda. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Nadya as a alternate transcription of Nadiyya. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,647 girls were recorded with the name Nadya between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,527 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,822 in 2020 to #5,852 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,610 in 2015 to #5,852 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.

How common is Nadya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,852
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadya 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadya was born before 2004 — so the typical Nadya is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,606
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (951).

Is Nadya 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
−999
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,030
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,242
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.3%
Peak was 2006 (115)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,527
1999

Spellings of Nadya

Nadya is not the most common spelling — Maya is, with 14.5% against Nadya'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 Nadya is used

Across 1910–2025, Nadya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 102,054 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Nadya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nadya around the world

Where Nadya 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
    1996–2023
    #3,599
    in 2023
  • France
    1946–2024
    #4,346
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1956–2008
    #533
    in 2008

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.

Notable people named Nadya

People whose public names include Nadya, 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.

Nadya in other languages

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

NadjaNadayaNadezhda

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

Nadya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,852
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,030
Best rank ever
#1,527
1999
Peak year
2006
115 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,647
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Nadya

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

NadjaNadiyaNadeenNadaAadyaIndyaNadiraNadeneNadiahNadiyahNadeanNadiaVidyaLidyaNadraNadyneAdyaNadineNadarNadinaNadirahNadegeNadezhdaEndya

Names with a curve like Nadya

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

MaleaDivyaArissaRayannaCallistaAnjaSarayJacieJennahKaileighShaylynnVianey

Sibling names for Nadya

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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