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Beda (name)

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Beda is a given name and surname of multiple origin. As a given name, it originates as an Anglo-Saxon short name, West Saxon Bīeda, Northumbrian Bǣda, Anglian Bēda (the purported name of one of the Saxon founders of Portsmouth in AD 501 according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) cognate with German Bodo. Beda Venerabilis was a Benedictine, in whose honour the name Beda was popularly chosen as a monastic name by Benedictines, and ultimately entered common usage as a given name on the continent.

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Béda is an unrelated Hungarian feminine given name.

Beda is also an unrelated Russian surname (from беда "trouble, misery").

Given name

  • Beda (Beda Venerabilis, the Venerable Bede), Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
  • Beda Angehrn (born Johann Konrad, 1725-1796), prince-abbot of Saint Gall.
  • Beda Aschenbrenner (born Franz Josef, 1756-1817) professor for church law at Ingolstadt and last abbot of Oberalteich abbey.
  • Beda Weber (1798–1859), German writer
  • Beda Dudík (1815–1890), Benedictine Moravian historian
  • Beda Adlhoch (born Franz Xaver, 1854-1910) Benedictine monk and professor of philosophy in Rome.

    • Surname

  • Leonid Beda (1923–1995), Soviet Army officer
  • Pedro Beda (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
  • Slavko Beda (1919–1975), Croatian footballer

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