Nadia is a name of Arabic origin and it means "hope" or "purity". The name was brought into popularity by the famous Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum who used Nadia as her stage name, although her real name was Fatima Ibrahim Ahmed Omer. Nadia is also associated with Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova's dance company which was named after one of her friends named Nadia. Throughout history, there have been many notable figures with the name Nadia such as Nadia Comaneci, a Romanian gymnast who won the first perfect score in Olympic gymnastics history at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi woman who survived sexual slavery by ISIS and became a human rights activist, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Despite its origins and notable figures associated with it, Nadia remains a beautiful and timeless name that continues to be popular around the world.
Here are some observations about the name Nadia's annual birth statistics:
- The popularity of the name Nadia has fluctuated significantly over the years. In the early 20th century, there were fewer than 10 births per year.
- There was a notable increase in Nadia's popularity around the late 1940s and early 1950s, with birth counts ranging from 20 to 53 between 1948 and 1964.
- The name Nadia reached its peak popularity in recent years. Between 2000 and 2022, the number of births per year ranged from a low of 622 to a high of 1499.
- The total number of births with the name Nadia over this period is 45,413.