girls:
45.4k births since 1911
#625 (89th percentile)
boys:
62 births since 1976
#4524 (1st percentile)
overall:
45.5k births since 1911
#1148 (85th percentile)
The name Nadia is the #1,148 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,475 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 85.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #625 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 45,413 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #4,524 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1976.
Nadia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Nadia is available in 112 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (112 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nadia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nadia reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 81.2% percentile (ranked #177) with 947 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 947 births per million (ranked 81.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nadia ranks #438 for girls (53.8% percentile) with 356 births per million, which is 37.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nadia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nadia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nadia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.3% confident that Nadia is pronounced as NAH-dee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NA-dee-uh, at 13.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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