Nadine (given name)

Nadine (with the variant spellings: Nadeen, Nadene) is a female given name.

It is a French elaboration (feminine diminutive; cf.

Clémentine, Géraldine, Micheline) of the name Nadia (also spelled Nadja, Nadya) (Russian: Надя, romanized: Nádja, lit.

'Nadya'), itself being a pet form of the Russian virtue name Nadezhda (Russian: Надежда, romanized: Nadéžda, lit.

'Hope'; from Russian: надежда, romanized: nadéžda, lit. 'hope').