Nadia
Nadia is a female name, used predominantly throughout the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caucasus, and the Arab world. It has also seen some popularity in regions of the United States and Canada where the aforementioned diasporas are common. Its origins are in the Slavic and Ancient Greek languages. Variations include: Nadja, Nadya, Nadine, Nadiya, and Nadiia.
The name Nadia means "hope" in many Slavic languages, e.g. Ukrainian Nadiya, Belarusian Nadzeya, and Old Polish Nadzieja, all of which are derived from Old East Slavic. In Bulgarian and Russian, on the other hand, Nadia or Nadya is the diminutive form of the full name Nadyezhda, meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ελπίς, with the same meaning.
The name's early roots and origins date back to Ancient Greece mythology. In most other languages, it is a name in its own right. In Russian military aircraft, the warning system voice is given the name Nadia.
In Arabic, Nadiyyah means "tender" and "delicate".
Nadia is the name of:
People
In sports
- Nadia Abdalá, professional tennis player
- Nadia Echeverría Alam, American-Venezuelan tennis player
- Nadia Comăneci, Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast
- Nadia Cortassa, Italian triathlete
- Nadia Dandolo, Italian long-distance runner
- Nadia Davy Jamaican sprinter
- Nadia Fezzani, Libyan swimmer
- Nádia Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- Nadia Nadim, Afghan-Danish footballer
- Nadia Petrova, professional tennis player from Russia
- Nadia Styger, Swiss alpine skier
In film, television and music
- Nadia Ali, American singer-songwriter
- Nadia Almada, Portuguese reality television star, winner of Big Brother UK
- Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
- Nadia Batson, Trinidadian singer, songwriter and model
- Nadia Chambers, Welsh actress
- Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress
- Nadia Gamal, Egyptian dancer of Greek descent
- Nadia Farès, French actress
- Nadia Khan, Pakistani actress and presenter
- Nadia Krasteva, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano
- Nadia Litz, Canadian actress
- Nadia López, Mexican singer and reality television star
- Nadia Lutfi, Egyptian actress
- Nadia Sawalha, English actress and television presenter
- Nadia Tass, Macedonian-Australian film director and producer
- Nadia Turner, contestant on American Idol season 4
Writers
- Nadia Al-Kokabany, Yemeni novelist, short story writer and academic
- Nadia Anjuman, poet from Afghanistan
- Nadia Brown, American poet, writer, and author
- Nadia Cavalera, Italian novelist, poet and literary critic
- Nadia Chafik, Moroccan novelist
- Nadia Davids, award-winning South African writer
- Nadia Drake, science journalist who writes the No Place Like Home blog for National Geographic
- Nadia Fezzani, Canadian journalist/author; researches American serial killers
- Nadia Hashimi, pediatrician, novelist, and a Democratic congressional candidate
- Nadia Hijab, Palestinian political analyst, author and journalist
- Nadia Maftouni, Iranian philosopher and artist who is married to disabled Iranian artist Hossein Nuri
- Nadia Mitsopoulos, Australian journalist
- Nadia Muhsen, British author who wrote Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery and A Promise to Nadia
- Nadia Nurhussein, American academic and author
- Nadia al-Ghazzi, Syrian lawyer and writer
- Nadia Tueni, Lebanese Francophone poet, who authored of numerous volumes of poetry
- Nadia Wheatley, Australian writer whose work includes picture books, novels, biography and history; author of Five Times Dizzy
Musicians
- Nadia Ali , Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
- Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin
- Nadia Batson is a Trinidadian singer, songwriter, producer and model
- Nadia Boulanger, French composer, conductor, and teacher
- Nadia Krasteva, Bulgarian mezzo-soprano
- Nadia Malm, Danish singer who collaborated with Svenstrup & Vendelboe
- Nadia Meikher, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress, poet, television personality and fashion designer
- Nadia Mladjao, French pop-soul singer better known by her stage name Imany
- Nadia Oh, English singer, rapper, producer and model
- Nadia Reid, New Zealand folk singer-songwriter
- Nadia Reisenberg, American pianist of Lithuanian birth
- Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian and American classical violinist and teacher
- Nadia Sirota, American viola player
- Nadia Turner, American singer, songwriter, actress and radio/television personality
- Nadia Zighem or Nâdiya, French R&B singer of Algerian origin
Other
- Princess Nadia of Leiningen, 129th in line to the British throne
- Nadia Abu El Haj, assistant professor at Barnard College
- Nadia Bakhurji, Saudi interior designer who announced her candidacy in the 2005 Saudi elections
- Nadia Brédimas-Assimopoulos, Canadian academic
- Nadia Ghazzali, Moroccan-Canadian statistician and university administrator
- Nadia Giosia, Canadian-Italian chef, comic actress and singer; presenter of Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen
- Nadia Hashem, Jordanian journalist and politician
- Nadia Heninger, American cryptographer
- Nadia Murad, Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist
- Nadia Rosenthal, scientist who specializes in heart development related research
- Nadia Savchenko, Ukrainian politician and former Army aviation pilot
- Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, computer graphics scientist and founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva
- Nadia Valavani, Greek politician
- Nadia Whittome, British politician
- Nadia Yanowsky, Spanish ballet dancer
- Nadia Yassine, founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane
- Nadia Younes, Egyptian national who worked for the UN and the WHO, victim of the Canal Hotel bombing
- Nadia Zakamska, Russian-American astronomer and professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Nadia Zakhary, Egyptian Minister of Scientific Research since 2 August 2012
- Nadia Beckett, English Solicitor, mediator and arbitrator and Chair of the Forum of Family Arbitrators for England and Wales.
Fictional characters
- Nadia Chernyshevski, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy
- Nadia Godfrey, on the TV series Hemlock Grove
- Nadia Jazeem, on the TV series Lost
- Nadia La Arwall, in the
- Nadia Petrova, Katherine's daughter on the TV series The Vampire Diaries
- Nadia, a stripper on the TV series Dexter
- Nadia Santos, on the TV series Alias
- Nadia Yassir, from the TV series 24
- Princess Nadia, a character in the SNES/PS1 game Chrono Trigger
- Nadia, in the American Pie film series
- Nadia, a Russian mail order bride in the 2002 film Birthday Girl
- , in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Nadia, in the anime television series El Cazador de la Bruja
- Nadia, a doll in the Groovy Girls doll line, by Manhattan Toy
- Nadia, in the animated film Ice Age
- Nadia, in the 2009 film Pandorum
- Nadia, in the TV series Russian Doll
- Nadia, in the French cartoon Titeuf
- Nadja, in the 2003 anime series Ashita no Nadja
- Nadja, main character of the 1928 surrealist novel Nadja by André Breton