Nadezhda
given name · Bulgarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nadezhda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: "hope".
- UAUkraine1 in 64◐
- RURussia1 in 88
- MDMoldova1 in 103
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈381K ●
- #94 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 183 ●
- 1 in 103 ◐
across 17 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
8.3M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Надежда in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 7 more, Nadiia in PL Poland, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 1 more, Nadija in BR Brazil, HR Croatia, AT Austria and Nadezda in CZ Czechia, DE Germany.
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●
"hope."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #26 | 11,798,318 | 3.1M rec. | — | #14 | Надежда | 183 |
| UA Ukraine | #20 | 4,969,326 | 5M rec. | — | listed | Надія | 78 |
| TR Türkiye | #780 | 98,577 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Надежда | 18 |
| FR France | — | 74,495△ | 726 rec. | 1 in 911 | 74K | Nadezhda | 107 |
| US United States | — | 55,952 | 37K rec. | 1 in 5.9K | 56K | Nadezhda | 173 |
| PL Poland | #243 | 55,625△ | 2K rec. | 1 in 688 | 56K | Nadiia | 102 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #31 | 53,507 | 12K rec. | — | — | Надежда | 17 |
| BR Brazil | — | 46,845△ | 138 rec. | 1 in 4.5K | 51K | Nadija | 43 |
| CZ Czechia | #114 | 35,786△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 299 | 36K | NadezdA | 59 |
| MD Moldova | #25 | 32,751△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 103 | 33K | Nadejda | 37 |
| BY Belarus | #36 | 29,005 | 11K rec. | — | 16 | Надежда | 34 |
| BG Bulgaria | #37 | 24,138 | 13K rec. | 1 in 289 | 24K | Надежда | 102 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bulgarian175K49%
- Russian108K30%
- English36K10%
- Spanish5.2K1%
- Chinese4.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | 174,973 | 49% |
| Russian | 107,596 | 30% |
| English | 35,571 | 10% |
| Spanish | 5,249 | 1% |
| Chinese | 4,144 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nadezhda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The Russian vocabulary word ‘hope’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Russian: from the vocabulary word meaning ‘hope’, an important theological virtue. Cognates: Polish: Nadzieja. Czech: Nad da. See also REMÉNYKE Pet forms: Russian: Nadya. Czech: Nad ja .
as a word
In English, A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda).
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 13 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 16 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nadezhda Krupskaiab. 1869RURussian revolutionary and politician (1869–1939)
- Nadežda Petrovićb. 1873RSnot in their usual nameSerbian artist (1873-1915)
- Nadezhda Mandelstamb. 1899RURussian writer and educator
- Nadezhda Alliluyevab. 1901AZsecond wife of Joseph Stalin
- Nadezhda Chizhovab. 1945RUSoviet athlete
- Nadezhda Pavlovab. 1956RUSoviet and Russian ballet dancer
- Nadezhda Markinab. 1959RUSoviet and Russian actress
- Nadia Petrovab. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Nadieżda Michałkowab. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Nadezhda Tolokonnikovab. 1989RURussian political activist and musician
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 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #4,842 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 956 | #169 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 757 | #3,470 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 537 | #2,045 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 495 | #2,170 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 377 | #744 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 377 | #744 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 300 | #749 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 298 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 220 | #4,475 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 121 | #7,476 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 119 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 198 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nadezhda?
- We estimate roughly 381 thousand people bear Nadezhda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nadezhda have the most bearers?
- Nadezhda is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled надежда.
- How common is Nadezhda compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nadezhda is the 26th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Nadezhda a male or female name?
- Nadezhda 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 Nadezhda mean?
- Recorded meaning: "hope."
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About this data
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, “Nadezhda” — the 26th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.