Nadiya
Nadiya was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,628 among girls’ names; 1,547 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Nadiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nadiya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nadiya is “a transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Наді́я (Nadíja).” Its etymology gives the sense “hope” (наді́я).
Transliteration of Ukrainian Наді́я (Nadíja), from наді́я (nadíja, “hope”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nadiya?
#4,628 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadiya fell from #3,579 in 2015 to #4,628 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 18.7 per million.
78 babies in 2003, the peak
Nadiya peaked in 2003, when 78 girls were given it, #2,218 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,628 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,447 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,164 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,873 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,809 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,821 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,650 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,719 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,014 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,130 | 29.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,579 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,172 | 29.1 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,756 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,124 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,981 | 33.0 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,831 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,666 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,945 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,742 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,931 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,594 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,797 | 31.6 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,218 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,839 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,078 | 25.5 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,252 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,356 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,402 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,203 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,696 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,504 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,443 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,903 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,826 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,084 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,397 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,349 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,183 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,588 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,433 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,960 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,925 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,335 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,411 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadiya, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,547 Americans ever recorded as Nadiya. The median Nadiya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,488 people named Nadiya (2,483 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 863 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 554 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,679 babies since 1880, Nadiya is the fifth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 637 babies (4.7%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nadiya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nadiya and names like it
- Compare Nadiya and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadiya peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Nadiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.