Type Word Usage Old Slavic (Hypothetical) Scripts надѣꙗ(Church Slavic) Meaning & History Slavic word meaning "hope" [1]. Related ItemsDetails Given Name DescendantsNadzeya(Belarusian) Nadejda, Nadezhda(Bulgarian) Nada(Croatian) Naděžda(Czech) Nadège(French) Nadežda(Latvian) Nada(Macedonian) Nadzieja(Polish) Nadejda, Nadezhda(Russian) Nada, Nadežda(Serbian) Nadežda(Slovak) Nada(Slovene) Nadia, Nadiia, Nadiya, Nadya(Ukrainian) Sources & References Trubachyov, Oleg. Etimologicheskiy Slovar Slavyanskikh Yazykov (vol. 21). Moscow, 1974-, page 235.