Nadja
About 1,166 American babies have been named Nadja since 1914, most of them around 1996. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 1,100 Nadjas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nadja
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,166
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 2,451st
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Nadjas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,166 babies given the name since 1914, about 1,100 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 Nadjas
- Nadja Auermann (born 1971)German model
- Nadja Uhl (born 1972)German actress
- Nadja Tiller (1929–2023)Austrian actress
- Nadja Regin (1931–2019)Serbian actress
- Nadja Kälin (born 2001)Swiss cross-country skier
- Nadja Benaissa (born 1982)German singer
- Nadja Kamer (born 1986)Swiss alpine skier
People named Nadja with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nadja is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nadja is most concentrated in New York (9.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular girls’ names the year Nadja peaked:
Nadja elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Nadja | 769 | 48th |
| France girls | Nadja | 395 | 894th |
| Norway girls | Nadja | 244 | 304th |
| Poland girls | Nadja | 142 birth registrations | 263rd |
| England and Wales girls | Nadja | 29 | 1,755th |
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.
Nadja: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Nadja | 754 | 0.061% | 39th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Nadja | 12 | 0.003% | 359th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Nadja | 3 | 0.005% | 164th |
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, Nadja is most concentrated in Schwyz, where 0.12% of children were given it – 42 of them.
Nadja: rank by region
In 2020, Nadja was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zachodniopomorskie | Nadja | 169 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – 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.
Nadja by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 427th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nadja 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 | Nadja | 819 | 968 |
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.
Related names
Nadja 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.