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Ida (given name)

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Gender
  
Female

Related names
  
Iida, Idella

Word/name
  
Ancient Germanic

Derived
  
Old Norse 'ið' meaning 'deed' or 'action'

Ida is a given name occurring independently in several cultures. In Germany, Ida is a female name derived from a Germanic word id, meaning "labor, work." 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.

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Ida is a currently popular name in the Nordic countries and is among the top 10 names given to girls born in 2013 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. 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:

People

  • Ida of Bernicia (died 559), King of Bernicia
  • Ida of Lorraine (1040–1113), French saint and noblewoman
  • Ida, Countess of Boulogne (1160–1216), French noblewoman
  • Ida Applebroog (born 1929), American painter
  • Ida Barney (1886–1982), American astronomer
  • Ida Corr (born 1977), Danish singer and songwriter
  • Ida Henriette da Fonseca (1802–1858), Danish opera singer
  • Ida Dwinger (born 1957), Danish actress
  • Ida Engberg (born 1984) Swedish techno DJ
  • Ida Haendel (born 1928), British violinist
  • Ida Jenshus (born 1987), Norwegian musician
  • Ida Lewis (born 1842), 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 Marie Lipsius (1837–1927), German writer
  • Ida Madsen (born 1994), Danish singer
  • Ida Mayrin (born 1997), Israeli Olympic rhythmic gymnast
  • 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 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 von Schulzenheim (1859–1940) Swedish painter
  • Ida Scudder (1870–1960), American missionary
  • Ida Tarbell (1857–1944), American journalist
  • Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), American journalist and civil rights activist

    • Fiction

  • Ida, fictional character in Jaishankar Prasad's poem Kamayani
  • Ida Barlow, fictional character in the television series Coronation Street
  • Ida Lebenstein, protagonist in the 2013 Polish film Ida
  • Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera
  • Ida, protagonist in Monument Valley (video game)
  • Ida, character in the book Ik kan nog steeds niet vliegen
  • Ida Wagner, character in book "IDA" by Alison Evans

    • 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

    • References

    Ida (given name) Wikipedia
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