Entry № 7114 · Russian origin

Nadja Nadja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAHD-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Hope"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Slavic)

A name that means "hope".

Nadja is the Serbian, Croatian, and German spelling of Nadya — Russian for "hope" — from nadezhda.

Nadja Auermann (born 1971) is the German supermodel. The 1928 surrealist novel Nadja by André Breton is a literary classic.

Hope. The Slavic Nadezhda.

The name in its native script.

Nadja
Transliteration
Nadja
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑːd.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadja stands.

Nadja 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.

Nadjas before her.

Real people
Nadja Auermann
German supermodel.
born 1971
In fiction
Nadja
Heroine of André Breton's 1928 novel.
1928 surrealist novel

Names connected to Nadja.

The number behind Nadja.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nadja reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.