Nadya
Nadya was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,852 among girls’ names; 2,647 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Nadya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nadya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nadya?
#5,852 among girls’ names, 2025
Nadya fell from #2,610 in 2015 to #5,852 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.7 to 13.1 per million.
115 babies in 2006, the peak
Nadya peaked in 2006, when 115 girls were given it, #1,804 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,852 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,853 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,084 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,938 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,855 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,822 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,209 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,145 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,286 | 28.4 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,567 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,610 | 38.7 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,768 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,927 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,703 | 37.5 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,290 | 46.6 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,148 | 51.8 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,971 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,410 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,191 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,804 | 60.5 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,763 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,992 | 50.6 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,117 | 45.4 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,977 | 49.5 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,987 | 47.8 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,806 | 52.9 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,527 | 63.1 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,331 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,853 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,543 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,399 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,964 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,140 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,633 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,687 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,408 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,792 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,543 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,486 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,292 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,377 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,204 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,058 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,977 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,311 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,451 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,788 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,193 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,711 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,512 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,825 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,629 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,173 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,831 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,857 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,818 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,486 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,863 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,329 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,320 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,309 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,344 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,234 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,729 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,230 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,650 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,356 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,272 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,505 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,812 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,915 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,900 | 8.3 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,678 | 5.0 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,765 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nadya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nadya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nadya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nadya, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,647 Americans ever recorded as Nadya. The median Nadya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,474 people named Nadya (3,473 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,414 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above 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 | 51 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 148 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 403 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 571 |
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).
Where are babies named Nadya born?
The states with the most babies named Nadya are California, Texas and New York, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 461 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 216 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 82 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nadya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nadya is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nadya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nadya?
Nadya is a less common spelling of Nadia: SSA has recorded 2,647 Nadya and 46,618 Nadia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,679 babies since 1880, Nadya is the third most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 637 babies (3.3%), the fourth 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 Nadya
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 Nadya and names like it
- Compare Nadya and NadiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNadya peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nadya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Nadya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nadya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.