Comments for the name Nadezhda

Nadya/Nadia is a pet name for Nadezhda. I love this name! I really like Russian names and Nadezhda is one of my favorites!

Nadezhda is pronounced Nah-desh-dah. I used to think it was Nad-eez-dah!

It's the name of Josef Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She married him at age sixteen, bore him two chldren, and several years later committed suicide.

In the Czech Republic it's written Nadìžda [NAD-jesh-da]. A name for about a 50 year old woman. A pet name is Naïa [NA-dja]. [noted -ed]

"Nadezhda" means "hope" in Bulgarian too and it is a popular female name in Bulgaria.

Also Serbian.

"Nadejda" (the stress is on the "e") is a better Latin spelling than "Nadezhda", because anybody who does not know the name will possibly not pronounce "zh" as [j].

A famous bearer is Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin's wife.

In Czech it is Nadě?da, pet form is Naďa.

Slovak pronunciation is "Nah-DEZH-dah".

I love this name! Naddie could be a cute nickname.

The æ/zh sound in Íàäåæäà / Nadezhda is pronounced like 'j'. I have a friend called this and her Russian parents pronounce it something like but not quite 'nah-DYEJ(ZH)-dah'. It doesn't pronounce a traditional 'z' sound or an 'sh' sound, but that funny eastern European sound which isn't completely spot on a 'j' but not far off. Nadezhda is one of many abstract female Russian names such as Vera or Lyubov, which, with a lower case first letter, act as Russian nouns. Basically, a capitalised noun used as a name, so Nadezhda is a name and nadezhda is a noun. Which, when you think about it, is very obvious, haha.

This name is so pretty--I've always thought Nadezhda Sheherazade was a beautiful combination. A little hard to spell, but beautiful nonetheless.

As of 2010, Nadezhda Kosintseva is the highest ranked Russian woman chess player.

ZH/Ž/Ж sounds like the French pronunciation of the pronoun 'je' ('I' as in 'I am') since the English pronunciation od 'j' is not even close (this is for the non-Slavic individuals who I hope have heard French before). Or the S in English 'pleasure'.

I want to like this, but unfortuantely it reminds me of the Portuguese word nádega, which means "buttock".

Nadezhda Mandelstam is a famous Russian writer and was Osip Mandelstam's wife.