Nadja vs Nadya

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nadja Nadya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Nadya for 53 years and Nadja for 32 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.

• 1917–1930 Nadja ahead
• 1944–1948 Nadya ahead
• 1953–1976 Nadja ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1980–1993 Nadya ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1994–1996 Nadja ahead
• 1997–2025 Nadya ahead

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nadjas alive today are over 32; half the Nadyas are over 20. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Nadja New York (9.4×)
• Nadya California (4.5×), Texas (2.8×), Florida (2.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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