Nadezhda

nah-DEHZJ-dah

Slavic

"hope"

Nadezhda Origin and Meaning

The name Nadezhda is a girl's name of Polish origin meaning "hope".

Nadezhda is more familiar in the English-speaking world by its short forms, Nadia or Nadya. Well-used through the Slavic countries and Russia, Nadezhda was the name of Lenin's wife. Viewers of The Americans learned that this was the original Russian name of the spy known as Elizabeth Jennings, played by Keri Russell.

Popularity of the name Nadezhda

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Famous People Named Nadezhda

• Nadezhda Andreyevna Durovar Russian military officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man
• Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya Soviet politician; wife of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin
• Nadezhda Nikolayevna "Nadya" Rusheva Russian painter and illustrator
• Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam Russian Soviet memoirist
• Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva second wife of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
• Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck Russian arts patron of Tchaikovsky
• Nadezhda Pavlovna Shteinmiller Russian painter
• Nadezhda Vladimirovna Chizhova Russian Olympic shot putter
• Nadezhda (Alexeevna Ilyina) Wijenberg Russian,Dutch Olympic runner
• Nadezhda Andreyevna "Nadya" Tolokonnikova Russian political activist and member of the band "Pussy Riot"
• Nadezhda "Nadya" Karpova Russian footballer
• Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova Russian tennis player