Nadin
A Slavic name that carries the word for hope, nadzieja. Fewer than 70 women in Poland go by it, all of them female, and hardly anyone gives it now.
Nadin Pronunciation
Nadin is pronounced NAH-deen (/ˈnadin/).
What Nadin means
Where Nadin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Nadin belongs to the Slavic family built on the root that gives Polish its word nadzieja, hope. Behind it sits the older name Nadezhda, hope itself turned into a person's name. Russian speakers formed Nadezhda as a rendering of the Greek Elpis, and the shorter Nadia and Nadine grew from it. Nadin is one more form in that group.
The meaning is not decoration added later. It is the origin. A child called Nadin wears the plain Slavic word for hope as her given name.
The root stays close to the surface. In a Polish class register, Nadin sits among names whose beginnings most speakers can still hear. The final consonant gives it a firm ending. The name is short.
Hope is the word underneath, and in Polish that word is nadzieja.
How many people are named Nadin
1 in 326722 women in Poland is named Nadin. 69 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4361 among female names.
Nadin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nadin as a middle name
Nadin is a first name for 69 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1851st, between Nada (16) and Natacha (16).
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#1849 Morgana16
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#1850 Nada16
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#1851 Nadin16
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#1852 Natacha16
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#1853 Nyoman16