Nadine
Nadine is a girl's name that peaked in 1958, when it was the 278th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,622nd. About 33,000 Nadines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nadine boys named Nadine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 53,424
- Estimated living today
- 33,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 278th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,622nd
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 53,381 / 43
How old the living Nadines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 53,424 babies given the name since 1887, about 33,000 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Nadines
- Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014)South African writer
- Nadine Labaki (born 1974)Lebanese actress and film director
- Nadine Angerer (born 1978)German footballer
- Nadine Koutcher (born 1983)Belarusian opera singer
- Nadine Keßler (born 1988)German soccer player
- Nadine Velazquez (born 1978)American actress and model
- Nadine Trintignant (born 1934)French filmmaker and novelist
- Nadine Sierra (born 1988)American operatic soprano
People named Nadine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nadine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nadine is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.8×), Kansas (2.2×), Oklahoma (2.1×), Nebraska (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular girls’ names the year Nadine peaked:
Nadine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Nadine | 131,775 | 14th |
| Austria girls | Nadine | 8,937 | 14th |
| England and Wales girls | Nadine | 1,591 | 241st |
| Switzerland girls | Nadine | 1,467 | 19th |
| Ireland girls | Nadine | 1,233 | 68th |
| Italy girls | Nadine | 942 | — |
| Scotland girls | Nadine | 819 | 128th |
| Norway girls | Nadine | 281 | 386th |
| Poland girls | Nadine | 165 birth registrations | 251st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Nadine | 136 | 102nd |
| Belgium girls | Nadine | 130 | 759th |
| New Zealand girls | Nadine | 126 | 94th |
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.
Nadine: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Nadine | 1,343 | 0.108% | 18th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Nadine | 81 | 0.019% | 134th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Nadine | 38 | 0.058% | 63rd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Nadine | 5 | 0.134% | 15th |
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.
By canton, Nadine is most concentrated in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, where 0.30% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Nadine: rank by region
In 2022, Nadine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nadine | 740 | 6 |
In 2023, Nadine was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Nadine | 8 | 1 |
In 2024, Nadine was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Nadine | 334 | 2 |
In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Nadine appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (275th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – 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.
Nadine by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nadine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Nadine | 4,428 | 6,929 |
| Finland girls | Nadine | 90 | 160 |
| the Netherlands boys | Nadine | — | 39 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Nadine lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,362 women called Nadine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Nadine | 115 | 0.183 | 463 |
| Palmas, Las | Nadine | 76 | 0.129 | 805 |
| Girona | Nadine | 50 | 0.121 | 699 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Nadine | 57 | 0.103 | 918 |
| Barcelona | Nadine | 304 | 0.100 | 720 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Nadine | 100 | 0.097 | 823 |
Listed in 38 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 14 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.
Related names
Nadine 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.