Girl

Nadine

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,627
128 girls
2015
#1,432
rank
1950
#279
rank

Nadine: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 128 in 2025. Its best rank was #229 in 1927.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #229 in 1927; #1,627 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nadine in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,627 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #229.

Babies in 2025
128
Since 1880
53,424
Years on record
139

Babies named Nadine, every year since 1880

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Girls

Nadine: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 128 girls in 2025. Peak: #229 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 1,011 (1958).

About the name Nadine

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

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 French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Nadene (1,895), Nadeen (1,499), Nadyne (628), Nadina (448), Naydene (66), Naydine (55), Nadeane (42), Nadin (36), Naden (22), Nadeene (5).

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.

Nicknames

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Nadine by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Massachusetts6#852—
Ohio9#1,011—
California25#1,077#1,018
Arizona5#1,171—
Illinois7#1,200#1,134
New York11#1,284#1,354
Florida7#1,818#2,014
Texas9#2,337#1,889

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025128#1,627——
2024133#1,586——
2023144#1,505——
2022148#1,483——
2021128#1,636——
2020148#1,458——
2019160#1,409——
2018148#1,486——
2017178#1,315——
2016176#1,349——
2015162#1,432——
2014160#1,426——
2013129#1,654——
2012139#1,571——
2011153#1,464——
2010150#1,497——
2009172#1,382——
2008155#1,507——
2007205#1,222——
2006171#1,357——
2005175#1,280——
2004200#1,143——
2003197#1,122——
2002185#1,128——
2001220#980——
2000248#888——
1999251#860——
1998269#798——
1997255#813——
1996229#867——
1995267#760——
1994246#823——
1993279#745——
1992276#758——
1991306#698——
1990306#695——
1989356#603——
1988400#547——
1987325#600——
1986311#615——
1985320#599——
1984323#569——
1983275#628——
1982335#552——
1981339#549——
1980335#555——
1979314#582——
1978329#542——
1977340#534——
1976347#513——
1975355#503——
1974353#499——
1973371#484——
1972400#465——
1971483#431——
1970597#393——
1969545#407——
1968604#370——
1967667#346——
1966691#3375#4,347
1965774#324——
1964933#305——
1963929#3046#3,901
1962943#301——
1961954#298——
1960968#299——
1959916#301——
19581,011#278——
1957900#307——
1956948#2855#4,307
1955902#289——
1954977#269——
1953873#283——
1952942#258——
1951748#287——
1950762#279——
1949644#305——
1948588#320——
1947556#339——
1946520#329——
1945435#331——
1944470#312——
1943554#295——
1942477#318——
1941589#264——
1940484#2866#3,360
1939506#275——
1938594#259——
1937566#260——
1936567#2586#3,424
1935641#246——
1934658#242——
1933676#234——
1932691#2315#4,130
1931630#241——
1930667#239——
1929659#2435#4,369
1928679#239——
1927779#229——
1926778#229——
1925789#234——
1924744#244——
1923653#253——
1922623#260——
1921661#2595#4,777
1920586#269——
1919563#267——
1918484#289——
1917453#290——
1916429#287——
1915337#328——
1914244#341——
1913206#336——
1912157#368——
1911132#346——
191090#416——
190965#467——
190868#438——
190751#505——
190639#569——
190543#525——
190433#598——
190330#602——
190244#474——
190129#587——
190041#529——
189928#592——
189829#607——
189715#857——
189620#722——
189517#784——
189420#680——
18936#1,388——
18929#1,066——
18917#1,178——
189012#814——
18896#1,231——
188812#781——
18877#1,008——

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).