Nadia (name)
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Nadia is a female name. In the western world its origins are in the diminutive of the Russian name Надежда (Nadezhda) which stand for "hope". "Nadine" is a French form of this diminutive.
This name is also very popular in the Middle East where it originates from Arabic, from the Qur'an. It was first used as a name in the Muslim world and later in the Western world. The meaning of this word in Arabic is "the caller" or "the announcer" or "the first dawn on a flower."
