Nadina
Just 73 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. A Slavic name built on the word for "hope," and a close cousin of Nadia.
Nadina Pronunciation
Nadina is pronounced nah-DEE-nah (/naˈdina/).
What Nadina means
Where Nadina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nadina grows from Slavic soil, from the same root that gives hope its name. The word behind it is nadzieja, hope in Polish, and the family it belongs to runs back to Nadezhda, the Slavic name meaning exactly that. Nadia is the shorter, better-known variant. Nadina keeps the older, fuller shape.
The meaning stays close to the surface here. Many names wear "hope" as a later gloss, attached long after the root was set. This one holds it in the root itself. A child called Nadina carries a word that Slavic families have used plainly for centuries.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. The teacher reads down the list and reaches Nadina, sitting somewhere near the more common Nadias. The name is rare enough to notice, familiar enough to spell.
The story is short and honest. Nadina means hope, through Slavic nadzieja, alongside its variant Nadia.
How many people are named Nadina
1 in 308820 women in Poland is named Nadina. 73 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4208 among female names.
Nadina as a middle name
Nadina is a first name for 73 women in Poland and a middle name for another 17, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1792nd, between Maxima (17) and Nataly (17).
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#1790 Maryja17
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#1791 Maxima17
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#1792 Nadina17
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#1793 Nataly17
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#1794 Notburga17