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Nada

Nada reached its high-water mark in 2000 at number 2,089, and has been recorded 5,129 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,352nd. About 3,400 Nadas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nada

By the numbers

Total US births
5,129
Estimated living today
3,400
Median age today
33
Peak year
2000
Best rank
2,089th
Rank in 2025
4,352nd
First recorded
1892

How old the living Nadas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,129 babies given the name since 1892, about 3,400 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 840 of them are children and 810 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Nadas

People named Nada with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nada is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nada is most concentrated in West Virginia (5.0×), Michigan (3.9×), Illinois (2.5×), New York (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular girls’ names the year Nada peaked:

All the names of 2000

Nada elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Nada 2,940 424th
Italy girls Nada 2,179
Belgium girls Nada 747 186th
England and Wales girls Nada 606 937th
Norway girls Nada 199 274th
Switzerland girls Nada 84 602nd
Ireland girls Nada 12 550th
Scotland girls Nada 11 464th
Poland girls Nada 2 birth registrations 721st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nada: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Nada 52 0.004% 469th
French girls Switzerland Nada 30 0.007% 349th
Italian girls Switzerland Nada 2 0.003% 189th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Nada: rank by region

In 2025, Nada was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Brussels Nada 159 7

In 2023, Nada was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Nada 8 1

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Nada appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (159th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Nada by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 10 551st

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Nada among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Nada 113 125

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Nada lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,672 women called Nada were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ceuta Nada 15 0.362 411
Melilla Nada 14 0.323 472
Almería Nada 105 0.278 396
Tarragona Nada 90 0.206 489
Girona Nada 85 0.205 492
Murcia Nada 128 0.162 528

Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Nada against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.