Entry № 7111 · French origin

Nadine Nadine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nay-DEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Hope (Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize in Literature)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "hope (nadine gordimer, nobel prize in literature)".

Nadine is the French elaboration of the Russian Nadya / Nadezhda — meaning "hope." Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) — South African novelist and anti-apartheid activist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature "who through her magnificent epic writing has been of very great benefit to humanity". Two of her novels — Burger's Daughter (1979) and July's People (1981) — were banned by the apartheid regime; she joined the African National Congress when it was still illegal. Nadine Heredia — first First Lady of Peru.

Hope. 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature; her novels were banned by the apartheid regime.

The name in its native script.

Nadine
Transliteration
Nadine
Pronunciation
/ neɪˈdiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadine stands.

Nadine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nadines before her.

Real people
Nadine Gordimer
South African Nobel novelist.
1923 – 2014
Nadine Strossen
First female ACLU president.
born 1950
In fiction
Nadine
Burger's Daughter.
1979

Names connected to Nadine.

The number behind Nadine.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nadine reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.