Ida (given name)
Ida is a popular Scandinavian name pronounced Ee-da. It is a name occurring independently in several cultures meaning industrious one or prosperous. It is derived from a Germanic word id, meaning "labor, work".[1] Alternately, it may be related to the name of the Old Norse goddess Iðunn. Ida also occurs as an anglicisation of the Irish girl's given name Íde.[2]
Ida is a currently popular name in the Nordic countries and is among the top 20 names given to girls born in 2019 in Denmark. It was among the top 20 names for newborn girls in Norway in 2013 and among the top 50 names for newborn girls in Sweden in 2013. It was among the top 10 names for girls born to Swedish speaking families in Finland in 2013. Finnish variant Iida was among the top ten most popular names given to newborn girls in Finland in 2013. Ida was at its height of popularity in the United States in the 1880s, when it ranked among the top ten names for girls. In an essay from Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine written in 1887, Ida is a favored name meaning "God-like".[3] It remained among the top 100 most popular names for girls there until 1930. It last ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States in 1986.
Ida may refer to:
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Ancient Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Derived | Old Norse 'ið' meaning 'deed' or 'action' |
| Related names | Iida, Idella |
People
- Ida Applebroog (born 1929), American painter
- Ida Baccini (1850–1911), Italian children's author
- Ida Barney (1886–1982), American astronomer
- Ida Botti Scifoni (1812–1844), Italian painter, sculptor and designer
- Ida Carloni Talli (1860–1940), Italian actress
- Ida Cook (1904–1986), British campaigner for Jewish refugees and romance novelist
- Ida Corr (born 1977), Danish singer and songwriter
- Ida, Countess of Boulogne (1160–1216), French noblewoman
- Ida Di Benedetto (born 1945), Italian actress and film producer
- Ida Dwinger (born 1957), Danish actress
- Ida Engberg (born 1984) Swedish techno DJ
- Ida Finney Mackrille (1867–1960) American suffragist and women's political leader in California
- Ida Galli (born 1942), Italian actress
- Ida Haendel (1928–2020), British violinist
- Ida Henriette da Fonseca (1802–1858), Danish opera singer
- Ida Jenshus (born 1987), Norwegian musician
- Ida Kleijnen (1936–2019), Dutch chef
- Ida Lewis (1842–1911), American lighthouse keeper
- Ida Ljungqvist (born 1981), Swedish model
- Ida Loo-Talvari (1901–1997), Estonian opera singer
- Ida Lupino (1918–1995), American actress and film director
- Ida Malosi, lawyer and judge from New Zealand
- Ida Marie Lipsius (1837–1927), German writer
- Ida Madsen (born 1994), Danish singer
- Ida Elizabeth Brandon Mathis (1857–1925), businesswoman and farmers' advocate
- Ida McCain (1884–after 1937), American architect
- Ida Nettleship (1877–1907), English artist
- Ida Göthilda Nilsson (1840–1920), Swedish sculptor
- Ida Nilsson (born 1981), Swedish trailrunner and ski mountaineer
- Ida Noddack (1896–1978), German scientist
- Ida Nudel (born 1931), Russian refusenik
- Ida Odinga (born 1950), Notable Kenyan businesswoman, activist and educator
- Ida of Bernicia (died 559), King of Bernicia
- Ida of Lorraine (1040–1113), French saint and noblewoman
- Ida of Nivelles (1190–1231), beatified Cistercian nun and mystic
- Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian explorer and writer
- Ida Pinto-Sezzi (1852–????), Italian painter
- Ida Praetorius, Danish ballerina
- Ida Quaiatti (1890–1962), Italian opera soprano
- Ida Redig (born 1987), Swedish singer, actress, music producer and songwriter
- Ida Rodríguez Prampolini (1925–2017), Mexican academic, art historian and cultural preservationist
- Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960), Russian ballet dancer
- Ida Sammis (1865–1943), American suffragist and politician
- Ida Saxton McKinley (1847–1907), American first lady and wife of President William McKinley
- Ida Schreiter (1912–1948), German concentration camp warden executed for war crimes
- Ida von Schulzenheim (1859–1940), Swedish painter
- Ida Scudder (1870–1960), American missionary
- Ida Štimac (born 2000), Croatian alpine skier
- Ida Tarbell (1857–1944), American journalist
- Ida Vihuri (1882–1929), Finnish politician
- Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), American journalist and civil rights activist
- Ida Wood (1838–1932), American recluse
- Ida Wyman (1926–2019), American photographer
Fiction
- Ida Barlow, fictional character in the television series Coronation Street
- Ida Blankenship, fictional character in the television series Mad Men
- Ida, character in the book Ik kan nog steeds niet vliegen
- Ida, fictional character in Jaishankar Prasad's poem Kamayani
- Ida Lebenstein, protagonist in the 2013 Polish film Ida
- Ida, protagonist in Monument Valley (video game)
- Ida Wagner, character in book Ida by Alison Evans
- Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera
Asteroid
- Ida, Asteroid 243. Named after the nymph Ida from Greek mythology.
Other uses
- Ida, daughter of Corybas and mother of Minos, in Greek mythology
- Ida (goddess), a goddess in Hinduism
See also
References
- Mike Campbell. "Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Ida". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh; Maguire, Fidelma. Irish Names. The Lilliput Press. ISBN 978-0-946640-66-9.
- Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. Frank Leslie. 1887.