Nadia
Top 1000
About Nadia
Nadia, an accessible Slavic favorite, has a strong run of popularity in the US in the early 2000s, partially thanks to the character on Lost called Nadia but actually named Noor, but it's since slumped down the rankings. An earlier inspiration was Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who won the 1976 Olympics.
Nadia is actually a short form of Nadezhda, the name of Lenin's wife, though more Westerners will relate it to the familiar Natalya or Natasha.
Nadia is also a traditional Arabic name, popular in the Muslim community and also spelled Nadiyya or Nadya. It means "moist, tender, delicate" in Arabic.
Octomom Suleman spells her first name Nadya, as in the Queen Nadya character in Noel Coward's play The Queen was in the Parlour.
Pronounced NAH-dee-uh.
As of October 2026, Nadia ranked #565 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #178 in 2005, Nameberry popularity #252.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #289 | 1,126 | 630.3 |
| 2015 | #346 | 952 | 533.3 |
| 2016 | #358 | 915 | 516.4 |
| 2017 | #405 | 781 | 452.4 |
| 2018 | #397 | 778 | 457.4 |
| 2019 | #416 | 755 | 449.8 |
| 2020 | #468 | 658 | 407 |
| 2021 | #459 | 684 | 416.9 |
| 2022 | #437 | 720 | 439 |
| 2023 | #489 | 624 | 388.9 |
| 2024 | #513 | 598 | 369.1 |
| 2025 | #565 | 531 | 330.4 |
World rankings
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Nadia on lists
Famous Nadias
- Nadia Alexandra Bjorlin
American actress
- Nadia Dajani
American actress
- Nadia Elena Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
- (Juliette) Nadia Boulanger
French composer
- Nadia Wayans
American actress
- Nadia Oleksandrivna Meikher
Ukrainian singer and actress
- Nadezhda Viktorovna "Nadia" Petrova
Russian tennis player
- Nadia Esra
model
- Nadia Sawalha
British actress and television presenter
Nadia in pop culture
- Nadia
character in "Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water".
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character from the 'American Pie' movies.
- Nadia
Sayid's long lost love on the TV show LOST.
- Nadia Santos
Sydney's half,sister on the TV show 'Alias'.
- Nadia Godfrey
character Netflix's Hemlock Grove.
- Nadia Petrova
daughter of Katherine Pierce/Katerina Petrova on TV's The Vampire Diaries.
- Nadia
character in the Amelia's Notebook series.
- "Nadia
" Iraqi TV series and its main character.
- Nadia Satrinava
the countess from the visual novel game The Arcana
- Nadia Rizavi
the MFE pilot in Voltron: Legendary Defender
- Nadia Vulvokov
main character of the Netflix series "Russian Doll"