girls:
53.1k births since 1887
#555 (90th percentile)
boys:
43 births since 1921
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
53.2k births since 1887
#1041 (87th percentile)
The name Nadine is the #1,041 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,161 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 86.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #555 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 53,118 births since 1887. For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1921.
Nadine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for girls and 1921 for boys).
The name Nadine has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nadine reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 64.5% percentile (ranked #272) with 489 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 646 births per million (ranked 60.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nadine ranks #808 for girls (14.7% percentile) with 82 births per million, which is 12.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nadine reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #518) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nadine".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nadine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.5% confident that Nadine is pronounced as nuh-DEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAY-deen, at 23.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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