Nadege

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nadege is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In the Congo - Brazzaville it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon1 in 1.1K
  • FRFrance1 in 2K
  • USUnited States1 in 192K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.3K

across 6 countries

Sources
295

121K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 192K

United States

Meaning & origin

recorded in French

Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nadege is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#336269,253108K rec.41KNadege295
CM Cameroon#401,8322K rec.listedNadege31
US United States1,7356.8K rec.1 in 192K1.7KNadege167
BE Belgium919872 rec.5Nadege42
BR Brazil454154 rec.1 in 466K454Nadege38
GP Guadeloupe#4013415 rec.5Nadege5
GB United Kingdom320237 rec.Nadege41
CA Canada310307 rec.5Nadege47
CI Côte d’Ivoire207232 rec.Nadege15
CD Congo - Kinshasa#401189285 rec.3Nadege12
GF French Guiana#561766 rec.5Nadege6
DO Dominican Republic135123 rec.Nadege7

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Languages

  • French279K88%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)15K5%
  • English6.8K2%
  • Portuguese6.8K2%
  • Swahili1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French279,49888%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)15,4305%
English6,8462%
Portuguese6,7532%
Swahili1,5981%

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

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

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name17K records spelled Nadege2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Nadège

  • French given name9.3K records spelled Nadege12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, English, Dutch

    Also written Nadège, Nådëgë, Ñadege, Nadége

  • a separate given name889 records spelled Nadege2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Cameroon, Switzerland

    Also written Nadège

  • Hindi given name265 records spelled Nadege5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Nadège, Nadége

  • Sinhala given name260 records spelled Nadege3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Congo - Kinshasa, Cameroon, United Kingdom

    Also written Ñadege, Nadège

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name167 records spelled Nadege11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark, Cameroon

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Nadège, Nadėge, Nadége

  • Indonesian given name70 records spelled Nadege3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cameroon

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Nadége

41 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

Nadege is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Misspelling of Nadège.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

05101519401950196019701980199015 · 1972

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Nadege in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), Guadeloupe, 1940–1999
Yearrecords
19405
19425
19455
19465
19505
19545
19555
19565
19585
19595
196010
19615
19635
196410
19655
19665
19675
19685
19695
19705
19715
197215
197310
197415
197515
19765
19775
19785
197910
198010
198110
198210
198315
19845
198510
19865
198710
19885
19895
19905
19915
19925
19955
19975
19995

GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)45 years between 1940–1999. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

196019802000Nadège Lefebvre, b. 1960Nadège Beausson-Diagne, b. 1972Nadège Abomangoli, b. 1975Nadège Loiseau, b. 1977Nadège Azzaz, b. 1981Nadège Lacroix, b. 1986Nadege Bobillier, b. 1988Nadege Essoh, b. 1990Nadège Cissé, b. 1997

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

Attested in 43 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Nadege
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)201041K#2,339
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,334
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022454
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)452#14,312
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)415#8,464
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)396#16,565
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199049
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)45#13,613
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)43#31,614
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)42#13,035
RE RéunionINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)197135#26
RE RéunionINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)196635#23

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 251 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nadege?
We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Nadege (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Nadege have the most bearers?
Nadege is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled nadege.
How common is Nadege compared with other names?
In France, Nadege is the 336th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Nadege a male or female name?
Nadege 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 Nadege mean?
Recorded meaning: Origine slave, signifie « espérance »; du russe Nadejda.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nadege” — the 336th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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