Nadja
Nadja was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,275 among girls’ names; 1,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Nadja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 24 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nadja mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Nadja is “a female given name”
Derived from Russian На́дя (Nádja).
/ˈnɑdjɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nadja?
#9,275 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadja rose from #14,039 in 2015 to #9,275 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.8 per million.
52 babies in 1996, the peak
Nadja peaked in 1996, when 52 girls were given it, #2,466 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,275 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,836 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,861 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,530 | 9.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,256 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,172 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,886 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,039 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,945 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,807 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #10,206 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,940 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,819 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,807 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,639 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,738 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,580 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,791 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,003 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,192 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,715 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,746 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,490 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,228 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,588 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,782 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,466 | 29.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,263 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,472 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,749 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,144 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,577 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,741 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,609 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,542 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,591 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,120 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,389 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,107 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,077 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,112 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,153 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,904 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,306 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,391 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,121 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,487 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,507 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,633 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,585 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,365 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,118 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,672 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,982 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,156 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,779 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,686 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,676 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,836 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,150 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,722 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,792 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,672 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,026 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,906 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,873 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,175 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,054 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,559 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,479 | 4.3 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,086 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,476 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,042 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,305 | 6.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,119 | 5.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,934 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,393 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,658 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,611 | 7.4 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,029 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadja, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,166 Americans ever recorded as Nadja. The median Nadja alive today is 33 years old; half are between 24 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,620 people named Nadja (1,612 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 91 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 326 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 333 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Nadja
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 Nadja and names like it
- Compare Nadja and RaeannBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNadja peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadja since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Nadja: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Nadja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.