Nada

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Nida in PH Philippines, IN India, Нада in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, นิดา in TH Thailand and Nadà in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nada is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name68K records spelled Nada45 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Naďa, Nad'A, Nādā, Nädä, Nàda

• French given name48K records spelled Nada119 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Argentina

  Languages: French, Spanish, Catalan

  Also written Ñàdà, Nad'A, Nàda, Nâdâ, Ñada

• Indonesian given name20K records spelled Nada12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Morocco, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Nada, Ňädä, Nâdà, Ñädä, Ńáda

• Czech given name12K records spelled Nada29 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Naďa, Nad'A, Nadá, Nadà, Nadǎ

• a separate given name3.5K records spelled Nada6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Morocco, Iraq

  Also written Nadā, Naďa, Nadǎ, Nadâ, Nadá

• Danish given name3.1K records spelled Nada21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Ñådå, Nádâ, Năďă, Nädaa, Ňadå

• Urdu given name2.1K records spelled Nada2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Pakistan, Türkiye, India

  Also written Ñâdä

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nada is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Serbo-Croatian, hope

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• » Ganefa (N); Krsna (N); Nrsimha (N); Siva (N)

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• from Alexandria/Port-Said/Vevey-Montreux

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Swedish, Nada kan vara ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’dagg’, men är också ett sydslaviskt namn med betydelsen ’hopp’. Namnet användes även i Sverige runt förra sekelskiftet, då kanske som en variant av → Nadja.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Serbo-Croatian, spes; žensko ime

  as a word·Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 132 years between 1892–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nada Fiorellib. 1919ITItalian actress (1919-1984)
• Nada Klaićb. 1920HRCroatian historian, linguist, translator (1920–1988)
• Nada Dimićb. 1923HRYugoslav partisan (1923–1942)
• Nada Inadab. 1929JPJapanese writer and psychiatrist
• Nada Abrusb. 1951HRactor
• Nada Malanimab. 1953ITItalian singer and writer (1953-)
• Nada Topčagićb. 1953RSBosnian singer
• Ana Bekutab. 1959RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer
• Nada Šarginb. 1977RSSerbian actress
• Nada Macankovićb. 1982RSSerbian film, television and theater actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 819 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nada?

We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Nada (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Nada have the most bearers?

Nada is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled nada.

Where is Nada most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nada is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 159 people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.

How common is Nada compared with other names?

In Egypt, Nada is the 61st most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.

Is Nada a male or female name?

Nada is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Nada mean?

Recorded meaning: a brook; a river; a stream; a species of Reed (Arundo tibialis).