Nadia
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Pronunciation | English: /ˈnɑːdiə/[1] or English: /ˈnɒdiə/[2] |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Arabic, Slavic |
Meaning | Delicate, fragile, hope |
Nadia is a female name. Variations include
Nadiia. Most variations of the name are derived from Arabic, Slavic languages
, or both.
In many Slavic languages, names similar to Nadia mean "hope":
Nadyezhda (Надежда), meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ἐλπίς (Elpis
), with the same meaning.
In Arabic, the name is Nadiyyah, meaning "tender" and "delicate."[3] In the Dan language, the word Nãdienã simply means "girl".[4]
People
Notable people with the name Nadia include:
Academics
- Nadia Abu El Haj (born 1962), assistant professor at Barnard College
- Nadia E. Brown, American political scientist
- Nadia Ghazzali (born 1961), Moroccan-Canadian statistician and university administrator
- Nadia Hohn, Canadian educator and author
- Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 1978), French philosopher, writer and academic
- Nadia Lapusta, professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics
- Nadia Maftouni (born 1966), Iranian philosopher and artist
- Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974), American academic
- Nadia Robotti, Italian historian of physics
- Nadia Rosenthal (born 1953), scientist who specializes in heart development related research
- Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (born 1946), computer graphics scientist and founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva
- Nadia Zakamska, Russian-American astronomer and professor at Johns Hopkins University
Athletes
- Nadia Abdalá (born 1988), Mexican professional tennis player
- Nadia Akpana Assa (born 1995), Norwegian long jumper
- Nadia Al-Hindi (born 1972), Jordanian table tennis player
- Nadia Assaf (born 1985), Lebanese football manager and former football and futsal player
- Nadia Báez (born 1989), Argentine Paralympic swimmer
- Nadia Battocletti (born 2000), Italian long-distance runner
- Nadia Belakhdar (born 1991), Algerian handball player
- Nadia Ben Azizi (born 2002), Tunisian fencer
- Nádia Bento de Lima (born 1966), Brazilian basketball player
- Nadia von Bertouch (born 1995), Australian rules footballer
- Nadia Bisiach (born 1965), Australian table tennis player
- Nadia Bonfini (born 1965), Italian alpine skier
- Nadia Bordon (born 1988), Argentine handball player
- Nadia Centoni (born 1981), Italian volleyball player
- Nadia Colón (born 2002), Dominican footballer
- Nadia Comăneci (born 1961), Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast
- Nadia Coolen (born 1994), Dutch football forward
- Nadia Cortassa (born 1978), Italian triathlete
- Nádia Cruz (born 1975), Angolan swimmer
- Nadia Dandolo (born 1962), Italian long-distance runner
- Nadia Davy (born 1980), Jamaican sprinter
- Nadia De Nardin (born 1975), Italian ice hockey player
- Nadia Delago (born 1997), Italian alpine skier
- Nadia Ducreux (born 1992), Panamanian footballer
- Nadia Echeverría Alam (born 1995), American-Venezuelan tennis player
- Nadia Ejjafini (born 1977), Moroccan-born long-distance runner
- Nadia Eke (born 1993), Ghanaian triple jumper
- Nadia Fadhil, Iraqi footballer
- Nadia Falvo (born 1963), Italian middle-distance runner
- Nadia Fanchini (born 1986), Italian alpine skier
- Nadia Fezzani (swimmer), Libyan swimmer
- Nadia Gautschi (born 1954), Swiss archer
- Nádia Gomes (born 1996), Portuguese footballer
- Nadia Graham (born 1974), Jamaican sprinter
- Nadia Gruny (born 1984), American cricketer
- Nadia Haro Oliva (1918–2014), French-Mexican fencer and actress
- Nadia Margrét Jamchi, Icelandic figure skater
- Nadia Johnston (born 1977), Australian beach tennis player
- Nadia Kassem (born 1995), Australian mixed martial arts fighter
- Nadia Khan (footballer) (born 2001), Pakistani footballer
- Nadia Krüger (born 1968), Swiss swimmer
- Nadia Lalami (born 1990), Moroccan tennis player
- Nadia Lawrence (born 1989), Welsh footballer
- Nadia Nadim (born 1988), Afghan-Danish footballer
- Nadia Negm (born 1998), Egyptian rower
- Nadia Noujani (born 1981), Moroccan long-distance runner
- Nadia Olla (born 2000), New Zealand footballer
- Nadia Petrova (born 1982), Russian tennis player
- Nadia Pfister (born 1995), Swiss squash player
- Nadia Podoroska (born 1997), Argentine tennis player
- Nadia Power (born 1998), Irish middle-distance runner
- Nadia Prasad (born 1967), French runner
- Nadia Quagliotto (born 1997), Italian cyclist
- Nadia Riquelme (born 1986), Argentine slalom kayaker
- Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe (1972–2015), Swiss curler
- Nadia Styger (born 1978), Swiss alpine skier
- Nadia Valentin (born 1987), Haitian footballer
- Nadia Vigliano (born 1977), French javelin thrower
Actresses, entertainments and models
- Nadia Afgan (born 1970), Pakistani actress and comedian
- Nadia Afrin Mim, Bangladeshi actress and model
- Nadia Ahmed (born 1982), Bangladeshi actress and dancer
- Nadia Al-Gindi (born 1946), Egyptian actress and producer
- Nadia Al-Iraqia (1963–2021), Iraqi actress
- Nadia Alexander (born 1994), American actress
- Nadia Ali, Pakistani American former pornographic actress
- Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese-born British television personality
- Nadia Barentin (1936–2011), French actress
- Nadia Ben Rachid (born 1962), French-Tunisian film editor
- Nadia Bjorlin (born 1980), American actress
- Nadia Buari (born 1982), Ghanaian actress
- Nadia Cassini (born 1949), American actress
- Nadia Cattouse (born 1924), British actress, singer and songwriter
- Nadia Chambers (born 1968), Welsh actress
- Nadia Dajani (born 1965), American actress
- Nadia de Santiago (born 1990), Spanish actress
- Nadia Di Cello (born 1989), Argentine actress
- Nadia El Fani (born 1960), French-Tunisian film director
- Nadia Farès (born 1973), French actress
- Nadia Forde (born 1989), Irish model and television personality
- Nadia Gray (1923–1994), Romanian film actress
- Nadia Hamza, Egyptian filmmaker
- Nadia Hasnaoui (born 1963), Norwegian television presenter
- Nadia Heng (born 1985), Malaysian model
- Nadia Hussain (born 1979), Pakistani TV actress, host, model entrepreneur and fashion designer
- Nadia Jamil (born 1980), Pakistani actress and host
- Nadia Kaci (born 1970), Algerian actress
- Nadia Khan (born 1972), Pakistani actress and presenter
- Nadia Kounda (born 1989), Moroccan film actress
- Nadia Labidi (born 1954), Algerian filmmaker
- Nadia Litz (born 1976), Canadian actress
- Nadia Lun (born 1986), Miss Hong Kong 2008 contestant and actress
- Nadia Lutfi (1937–2020), Egyptian actress
- Nadia Mukami (born 1996), Kenyan singer
- Nadia Nerina (1927–2008), South African dancer
- Nadia Niazi, Moroccan actress
- Nadia Parfan (born 1986), Ukrainian film director and creative producer
- Nadia Parkes, English actress
- Nadia Sawalha (born 1964), English actress and television presenter
- Nadia Tass (born 1956), Macedonian-Australian film director and producer
- Nadia Tereszkiewicz (born 1996), French-Finnish actress
- Nadia Townsend (born 1979), Australian actress
- Nadhiya, Indian actress
Musicians and singers
- Nadia Ali (born 1980), Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
- Nadia Almada (born 1977), Portuguese reality television star, winner of Big Brother UK
- Nadia Azzi (born 1998), American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin
- Nadia Batson, Trinidadian singer, songwriter, producer and model
- Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), French composer, conductor, and teacher
- Nadia Krasteva, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano
- Nadia López (born 1983), Mexican singer and reality television star
- Nadia Malm (born 1986), Danish singer who collaborated with Svenstrup & Vendelboe
- Nadia Meikher(born 1982), Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress, poet, television personality and fashion designer
- Nadia Mladjao(born 1979), French pop-soul singer better known by her stage name Imany
- Nadia Nakai (born 1990), Zimbabwean-South African rapper and television personality
- Nadia Oh (born 1990), English singer, rapper, producer and model
- Nadia Reid (born 1991), New Zealand folk singer-songwriter
- Nadia Reisenberg (1904–1983), American pianist of Lithuanian birth
- Nadia Rose (born 1993), British musician
- Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg(born 1961), Italian and American classical violinist and teacher
- Nadia Sirota, American viola player
- Nadia Tagrine (1917–2003), Franco-Russian classical pianist
- Nadia Tehran (born 1990), Iranian-Swedish rapper and singer
- Nadia Turner (born 1977), contestant on American Idol season 4
- Nadia Zighemor Nâdiya (born 1973), French R&B singer of Algerian origin
Politicians
- Nadia Ahmad Samdin, Singaporean politician and consultant
- Nadia Al-Sakkaf, Yemeni politician
- Nadia Fettah Alaoui, Moroccan entrepreneur and politician
- Nadia Aziz (born 1973), Pakistani politician
- Nadia Binte Amin (born 1963), Bangladeshi politician
- Nadia Bolz-Weber (born 1969), American Lutheran minister
- Nadia Boubeghla, Algerian politician
- Nadia Brédimas-Assimopoulos, Canadian politician
- Nadia Calviño (born 1968), Spanish economist and civil servant
- Nádia Campeão (born 1958), Brazilian engineer and politician
- Nadia Clancy, Australian politician
- Nadia Cruz (born 1982), Bolivian lawyer and politician
- Nadia de León Torres, Guatemalan politician
- Nadia Arop Dudi (born 1971), South Sudanese politician
- Nadia Essayan (born 1957), French politician
- Nadia Gallico Spano (1916–2006), Italian politician
- Nadia Ginetti (born 1969), Italian politician
- Nadia Hai (born 1980), French politician
- Nadia Hashem (died 2023), Jordanian journalist and politician
- Nadia Kanegai, Vanuatu politician and entrepreneur
- Nadia Makram Ebeid, Egyptian politician
- Nadia Mohamed (born 1996), American politician
- Nadia Naji (born 1992), Belgian politician
- Nadia Navarro Acevedo, Mexican politician
- Nadia Ramassamy (born 1961), Indian-French politician from Réunion
- Nadia al Rawabdeh, Jordanian politician
- Nadia Savchenko(born 1981), Ukrainian politician and former Army aviation pilot
- Nadia Schadlow, American government official
- Nadia Sher, Pakistani politician
- Nadia Sminate (born 1981), Belgian politician
- Nadia Theodore, Canadian diplomat
- Nadia Valavani (born 1954), Greek politician
- Nadia Whittome (born 1996), British politician
- Nadia Zakhary, Egyptian politician
Writers and journalists
- Nadia al-Ghazzi (born 1935), Syrian lawyer and writer
- Nadia Al-Kokabany, Yemeni novelist, short story writer and academic
- Nadia Al Najjar, Emirati writer
- Nadia Anjuman (1980–2005), poet from Afghanistan
- Nadia Brown, American poet, writer, and author
- Nadia Bulkin, Indonesian-American author and political scientist
- Nadia Cavalera (born 1950), Italian novelist, poet and literary critic
- Nadia Chafik (born 1962), Moroccan novelist
- Nadia Colburn (born 1972), American poet and non-fiction writer
- Nadia Daam (born 1978), French journalist
- Nadia Davids (born 1977), award-winning South African writer
- Nadia Drake (born 1980), science journalist who writes the No Place Like Home blog for National Geographic
- Nadia Fezzani, Canadian journalist/author; researches American serial killers
- Nadia Fink, Argentine author
- Nadia Ghulam (born 1985), Afghan writer
- Nadia Hashimi (born 1977), pediatrician, novelist, and a Democratic congressional candidate
- Nadia Hijab, Palestinian political analyst, author and journalist
- Nadia Khar, Pakistani politician
- Nadia Manzoor, British writer, performer and producer
- Nadia Mifsud, Maltese-French poet, novelist and literary translator
- Nadia Mitsopoulos (born 1971), Australian journalist
- Nadia Muhsen(born 1965), British author
- Nadia Origo (born 1977), French-Gabonese writer and editor
- Nadia Owusu, Ghanaian-American author
- Nadia Ramassamy (born 1961), French politician
- Nadia Sharmeen (born 1986), Bangladeshi journalist
- Nadia Terranova (born 1978), Italian writer
- Nadia Toffa (1979–2019), Italian journalist
- Nadia Tueni (1935–1983), Lebanese-French poet, who authored of numerous volumes of poetry
- Nadia Wheatley (born 1949), Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history; author of Five Times Dizzy
Philosophers
Other
- Nadia Aboulhosn (born 1988), American fashion blogger, model and designer
- Nadia Ali (born 1984), English broadcaster
- Nadia Badawi, Australian physician
- Nadia Bakhurji, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections
- Nadia Bartel, Australian model and fashion designer
- Nadia Benbouta (born 1970), Algerian artist
- Nadia Benois (1896–1975), Russian-British painter
- Nadia Bouras, Dutch historian of Moroccan descent
- Nadia Bukhari, British pharmacist of Pakistani origin
- Nadia Chaudhri (1978–2021), Canadian psychologist
- Nadia Chomyn (1967–2015), British autistic artist
- Nadia Crow, American TV news reporter
- Nadia Dowshen, American pediatrician
- Nadia Essex (born 1981), English media personality
- Nadia Ferreira (born 1999), Paraguayan fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Nadia Fröbisch (born 1976), German vertebrae paleontologist and developmental biologist
- Nadia Gamal (1937–1990), Egyptian dancer of Greek descent
- Nadia Geller (born 1976), American interior designer, artist and TV personality
- Nadia Giosia (born 1980), Canadian-Italian chef, comic actress and singer; presenter of Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen
- Nadia Granados (born 1978), Colombian performance artist
- Nadia Hebson, British artist
- Nadia Heninger (born 1982), American cryptographer, computer security expert
- Nadia Huggins (born 1984), Trinidadian photographer
- Nadia Kaabi-Linke (born 1978), Tunisian artist
- Nadia Lee Cohen (born 1992), British artist, photographer, and filmmaker
- Nadia Khodasevich Léger (1904–1982), French painter
- Nadia Lichtig (born 1973), German visual artist
- Nadia Lim (born 1985), New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer, and TV personality
- Nadia López (born 1983), musical artist
- Nadia Marcinko (born 1986), Slovakian-born pilot, flight instructor, and the CEO of Aviloop
- Nadia Matar (born 1966), Israeli activist
- Nadia Mejia (born 1995), American-Ecuadorian model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Nadia Murad (born 1993), Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist
- Nadia Myre, Canadian artist
- Nadia Oleszczuk, Polish activist and founding member of the Consultative Council of Poland
- Nadia Pinardi (born 1956), Italian oceanographer
- Nadia Plesner, Danish/Dutch painter
- Nadia Russo (1901–1988), Romanian aviator
- Nadia Samdani, British born Bangladeshi businesswoman
- Nadia Santini, Italian chef
- Nadia Shahram, Iranian-American attorney and activist
- Nadia Sirry (born 1958), Egyptian artist
- Nadia Smyrnytska (1852–1889), Ukrainian revolutionary
- Nadia Stacey, British make-up artist
- Nadia Tromp (born 1977), South African architect
- Nadia Waloff (1909–2001), English entomologist
- Nadia Yanowsky, Spanish ballet dancer
- Nadia Yassine (born 1958), founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
- Nadia Younes (1946–2003), Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing
- Nadia Zyncenko (born 1948), Argentine weather forecaster and meteorologist
Fictional characters
- Nadia, Palestinian protagonist of the film A.K.A Nadia
- Nadia Sinh, protagonist of Amazon Prime's Citadel
- Nadia Chernyshevski, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy
- Nadia Fortune, in Skullgirls
- Nadia Godfrey, on the television series Hemlock Grove
- Nadia Jazeem, on the ABC television series Lost
- Nadia La Arwall, in the Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water anime directed by Hideaki Anno
- Nadia Petrova, Katherine's daughter on the CW television drama The Vampire Diaries
- Nadia Santos, on the television series Alias
- Nadia Vulvokov, in the television series Russian Doll
- Nadia Yassir, from the Fox television series 24
- Nadia McConnell, the sister of the protagonist from the musical Bare: A Pop Opera
- Nadia el Mansour, in the Le Bureau des Légendes
- Princess Nadia (aka Marle), in the SNES/PS1 video game Chrono Trigger
- Nadia, in the American Pie film series
- Nadia, a Russian mail-order bride in the 2002 film Birthday Girl
- Nadia, in the PC video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Nadia, in the anime television series El Cazador de la Bruja
- Nadia, a stripper on the Showtime television series Dexter
- Nadia, a doll in the Groovy Girls doll line, by Manhattan Toy
- Nadia, in the 2002 animated film Ice Age
- Nadia, in the 2009 film Pandorum
- Nadia, in the French animated series Titeuf
See also
- Anadia (disambiguation)
- Nadezhda (disambiguation)
- Nadja (given name)
- Nada (given name)
- Slavic names
- Love
- Hugo (name)
References
- ISBN 0806513861.
- ISBN 0806513861.
- ^ "Al-Maany Dictionary". Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ Dan Wordlist