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").
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