Nadija

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from a river

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

/nadija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nadija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 12K
  • SISlovenia1 in 13K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈440 people, est.

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Nadija: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Nadija
  1. Middle Englishryver(inferred from the name graph)via river
  2. Anglo-Normanrivere(inferred from the name graph)via river
  3. Old Frenchriviere(inferred from the name graph)via river
  4. Vulgar Latin*rīpāria“riverbank“riverbank, seashore, river”(inferred from the name graph)via river
  5. Latinrīpārius“of a riverbank”(inferred from the name graph)via river
  6. Latinrīpa“river bank”(inferred from the name graph)via river
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁reyp-“to scratch“to scratch, tear, cut”(inferred from the name graph)via river

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

from a river.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nadija counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nadija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈440 est.≈1 in 8.7K30Nadija4
BR Brazil4281 in 495K524Nadija39
HR Croatia3531 in 12K353—1
PL Poland2571 in 149K257——
SI Slovenia1671 in 13K173—1
CZ Czechia1561 in 69K156——
LV Latvia241 in 78K24—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nadija is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Ukraine, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Bosnian

    Also written Nadiya, Nadîja, Nādiyā, Надија

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Nadìja

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nadìja, Nádija

32 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(measured from records)

Nadija 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, b. 1921Nadiya Babych, b. 1943Nadezhda Olizarenko, b. 1953Nadezhda Prishchepa, b. 1956Nadiya Filipova, b. 1959Nadiya Savchenko, b. 1981Nadia Meiher, b. 1982Nadiya Didenko, b. 1986Nadiia Kodola, b. 1988Nadya Dorofeeva, b. 1990

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Nadija,Hi Nadija, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Nadija
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—524#7,164
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—508#14,175
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022428—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—425#14,887
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021353#882
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021345—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—257#895
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026257#895
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—173#1,098
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025167#550
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024165#542
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—156#1,073

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nadija mean, and where does it come from?
from a river. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
How do you pronounce Nadija?
A machine transcription gives /nadija/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Nadija a male or female name?
Nadija 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.
In which country does Nadija have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 443 people named Nadija in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadija.
How common is the name Nadija?
In Brazil, the national register counted 428 people named Nadija in 2022, about 1 in 495 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Nadija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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