Nadezhda
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Nadezhda is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “hope”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Nadezhda mean?
Slavic
“hope”
A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda).
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nadezhda a girl's or a boy's name?
Nadezhda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nadezhda in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 4 girls.
Nadezhda in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
How popular is Nadezhda in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Nadezhda, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Nadezhda in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nadezhda in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Nadezhda
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nadezhda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nadezhda, updated 20 October 2026.