How rare is the name Nada?

7,185 people in the United States have the first name Nada, about 1 in 42,036. It ranks #3,078 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

NADA

#3,078

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,185
About
1 in 42,036
This common or more
81.6%
Who bears it

Of the 7,185 people named Nada, 85.8% reported their origin as White, 6.2% as Black and 3.2% as two or more races. 99.1% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nada peaked in 2000, when 78 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18922025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
78
In 2025*
32 ▼59%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,129 babies have been given the name since 1892. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Nada by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #1,643. The largest share of babies named Nada, 19.4%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1890s#2,24946
1900s#2,15681
1910s#2,317250
1920s#1,858556
1930s#1,643602
1940s#2,227432
1950s#2,519458
1960s#3,552292
1970s#4,341279
1980s#4,581325
1990s#4,409475
2000s#4,728601
2010s#5,360540
2020s#7,572192
Before 19011.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2714.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4519.4%
Baby boom 1946–6415.2%
Generation X 1965–808.7%
Millennials 1981–9611.3%
Generation Z 1997–1218.9%
2013 and later10.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nada is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nada has been most common in West Virginia (5×), Michigan (3.9×), and Illinois (2.5×), and least common in New Jersey (0.82×).

1,306 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Nada

1 other first name also has 7,185 people.

#3,078 Kaycee · 7,185

Either side of Nada

#3,077 Hussein · 7,190#3,078 Kaycee · 7,185#3,080 Raiden · 7,182#3,081 Latrice · 7,177

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nada, most common first.

#834 Nadia · 56,039#5,070 Nadya · 3,474#9,260 Naida · 1,515#13,077 Nayda · 934#29,353 Nata · 302#33,571 Nadi · 246#34,154 Nady · 240#42,918 Nadea · 166

Also a last name

As a last name, Nada ranks #47,112 of 156,621, with 486 people. See Nada as a last name

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