Nada is from the Croatian / Serbian Nada — hope (also from the Arabic Nadā — dew, generosity). A modern American baby name in the broader Slavic-Balkan + Arabic heritage aesthetic. Nada is one of the foundational Croatian + Serbian + Bosnian feminine names + foundational Arabic feminine name. Notable bearer: Nada Dimić (1923-1942) — foundational Yugoslav partisan + WWII anti-fascist resistance heroine + foundational Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia recipient (posthumously honored, tortured + executed by Ustaše at age 19); Nada Mamula — foundational Bosnian-Serbian sevdalinka singer + foundational Yugoslav traditional music figure; Nada Šargin — foundational Serbian theater + film actress; Nada Abu Faraj — Lebanese foundational Arabic actress + television presenter.
Featured throughout Croatian heritage.
Nada reduces to nine.