In 2025, 128 US girls were named Nadine, making it the 1,627th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #1,586 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 133 girls named Nadine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #229, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,011, in 1958. For comparison, it was #1,432 in 2015 and #279 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nadine in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 7 babies. In all, 53,424 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 8,984 babies named Nadine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,491 US girls were named Nadine; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 178. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nadine ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #852 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nadene, Nadeen and Nadyne are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Deedee and Nada.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.