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Subject: Re: Maida...
Author: Roxane   (Authenticated as Roxane)
Date: December 26, 2003 at 5:47:02 PM
Reply to: name finder by maida
...I had a Great-Aunty named Mayda, She lived all her life in Australia of Anglo-descent. Maida is the diminutive of Mary.
Also given as meaning 'girl' or 'maiden' or after the London suburb
Maida Vale.

Taken from "The Great Australian & New Zealand book of Baby Names"
by Cecily Dynes.

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