Meaning not yet researched.
Nada: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #792 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #792 in 1934; #4,432 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nada in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,432 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #792.
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Nada: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #792 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 78 (2000).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Nada, making it the 4,432nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 16 places from #4,448 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 32 girls named Nada in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #792, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 78, in 2000. For comparison, it was #3,203 in 2015 and #1,291 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nada in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 6 babies. In all, 5,129 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 602 babies named Nada.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 378 US girls were named Nada; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nadia (46,618 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Naida, Nayda and Nahida are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Dutch and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naida (1,714), Nayda (255), Nahida (51), Nadaya (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nada in the open dataset we use.
Nada is listed as a nickname for Nadine.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,336 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,438 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,921 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,238 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 2016 | 56 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 2012 | 72 | #2,535 | — | — |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,744 | — | — |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,352 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,058 | — | — |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2000 | 78 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,715 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,938 | — | — |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,709 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,305 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,166 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,250 | — | — |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,578 | — | — |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1953 | 56 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1950 | 51 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1941 | 46 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1940 | 48 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,143 | — | — |
| 1938 | 51 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1937 | 53 | #960 | — | — |
| 1936 | 61 | #874 | — | — |
| 1935 | 52 | #961 | — | — |
| 1934 | 72 | #792 | — | — |
| 1933 | 60 | #874 | — | — |
| 1932 | 71 | #813 | — | — |
| 1931 | 72 | #804 | — | — |
| 1930 | 69 | #865 | — | — |
| 1929 | 53 | #999 | — | — |
| 1928 | 67 | #900 | — | — |
| 1927 | 59 | #996 | — | — |
| 1926 | 73 | #870 | — | — |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1924 | 58 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1923 | 57 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1921 | 53 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1919 | 33 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1916 | 34 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,404 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).