Nada

Where Nada comes from

Nada hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1892
    First appearance
    #1,278 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Nada Dimić born
    Yugoslav partisan
  3. 1934
    Peak, #791
    72 babies named Nada — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,820.
  5. 1953
    Nada born
    Italian singer and writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nada Dimić · Yugoslav partisan, 1923–1942
  • Nada · Italian singer and writer, born 1953
  • Nada Klaić · Croatian historian, linguist, translator, 1920–1988
  • Nada Cristofoli · Italian cyclist, born 1971
  • Nada Meawad · Egyptian beach volleyball player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.