Nadija
A Slavic name that says its meaning outright: hope, the Ukrainian Надія. Most Poles have never met one, and the few who carry it are all women.
Nadija Pronunciation
Nadija is pronounced nah-DEE-yah (/naˈdija/).
What Nadija means
Where Nadija comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nadija means hope. The name is Slavic, and among Ukrainians it is written Надія, a word that says outright what it holds: nadzieja. Few given names translate this cleanly.
Its relatives make the family easy to trace. Nadia is the shorter, more travelled variant, at home across Europe and easy on any tongue. Nadzieja is the full Polish form of the same idea, uncommon as a first name yet plain to every Polish speaker. Behind all of them stands Old Church Slavonic nadežda, which scholars read as a calque of the Greek elpis, hope, built to translate the Christian virtue into a Slavic word.
So the meaning was never bolted on afterward. It is the origin, sitting on the surface where anyone can read it.
Picture a class register in Lublin, Nadia two lines above Natalia. The name reads as Ukrainian and Slavic at once, and those who carry it in Poland can mark their imieniny on the thirtieth of September. What the name says, it also means: hope, nadzieja.
How many people are named Nadija
1 in 87379 women in Poland is named Nadija. 258 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1912 among female names.
Nadija's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nadija as a middle name
Nadija is a first name for 258 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3373rd, between Márta (6) and Nanette (6).
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#3371 Márcia6
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#3372 Márta6
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#3373 Nadija6
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#3374 Nanette6
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#3375 Narcisa6