Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fadia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 0 boys · 76 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,228 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fadia’s family of names
Fadia may belong to the same name family as FADDIA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fadia
- Fadia FaqirBritish writerborn 1956
- Fadia FarhaniTunisian taekwondo athleteborn 1996
- Fadia KhirfanJordanian taekwondo practitionerborn 2007
- Fadia OmraniTunisian woman handball playerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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