Entry № 7106 · Russian origin

Nadezhda Nadezhda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-DEZH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Hope"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "hope".

Nadezhda (Надежда) is the Russian word for "hope" — the second of three theological virtues (with Vera/faith and Lyubov/love). Saint Nadezhda was martyred with her sisters Vera and Lyubov in 137 CE.

Nadezhda is widely used in Russia. The short form Nadya is also widely used. Nadezhda von Meck was Tchaikovsky's patron and confidante.

Hope. The second Russian virtue.

The name in its native script.

Надежда
Transliteration
Nadezhda
Pronunciation
/ nəˈdɛʒ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadezhda stands.

Nadezhda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nadezhdas before her.

Real people
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Russian writer.
1899 – 1980
Nadezhda von Meck
Tchaikovsky's patron.
1831 – 1894
In fiction
Nadezhda
Common in Russian fiction.

Names connected to Nadezhda.

The number behind Nadezhda.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nadezhda reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.