Comments for IDA:

The pronunciation of this name is ee-dah in all languages except English.

-- Miss Claire  4/16/2005

Ida may originally mean "work", but that´s not the reason why it's so popular in Scandinavia, especially Sweden. Swedes tends to like giving their girls simple, delicate and feminine names but yet with some sparkle. They are often very short, like "Ida", to be concrete and simplisive. It's because we like the sophistication of the simplisivity, like a small, natural flower that may not be so voluptous, but means the strongest sense of love for it´s beholder, when you discover it's beauty after the long, cold winter. Sort of. :) Ida therefore means like "naturally sweet, true and special person" sort of. Also it's a name of one of the characters in folk writer Astrid Lindgrens stories.

-- LIN  11/30/2005

Another possible theory for the origin of this name is connected to the namedays listed here. In the ancient Roman calendar the Idae marked the 15th or the 13th day of every month. So every Ida can choose her own name day or celebrate every month. I personally always forget to do it.

In Bulgarian there is a verb that sounds the same way and means "I am coming" and in Spanish there is a noun meaning "going, departure".

-- feminaluda  1/4/2006

Ida Brown Wright was a good friend of the authoress Laura Ingalls Wilder. The adopted daughter of a reverend and his wife, Laura and Ida were friends when they lived in De Smet, South Dakota. Ida appears as a character in the books The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years.

-- WeloveyouJesseLacey  3/13/2006

Pronounced EE-dah in Germany. [noted -ed]

-- JHK  9/3/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Ida here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  9/3/2006

Ida is the name of the 14-year-old girl and main character in Avi's award-winning children's book The Secret School. The book is an inspiring story of a headstrong girl determined to control her own destiny.

-- Anonymous User  2/3/2007

In Spanish, it is most commonly said ee-th-a. I know because it was my great-grandmother's name.

-- Anonymous User  2/13/2007

Sorry to say, but your great-grandmother mispronounced her name. In Spanish Ida is prnounced EE-dah, and only EE-dah.

-- Elianita  12/15/2008

Ida B was the main character in the book, Ida B.

-- Anonymous User  3/3/2007

Ida is the name of a novel by Gertrude Stein, and a character in it.

-- Anonymous User  4/8/2007

Ida Lupino was a movie star in the 20's and 30's.

-- elizabeth hamlet  9/21/2007

The name was also borne by Ida B. Wells, an advocate of civil rights and women's rights who gained particular renown for her staunch opposition to lynching.

-- Wordsmith  3/2/2008

Famous bearers:
Indian-Czech singer Ida Bittová-Kelarová
Czech photographer Ida Saudková
Polish actress Ida Kaminska
Slovak actress Ida Rapaičová
Czech actress Ida Sovová

-- MaggieSimpson  4/11/2008

Also used in the same form in Poland.

-- daffodils_sing  4/11/2008

It's old-fashioned, but it's not old-fashioned in some ugly, awkward, or geeky way. The name is simple and cute enough, kind of like Ada. I'm just not quite sure how good this name is for actual adults. On the other hand, it's pronounced a bit like Aida, and I don't find that name too youthful. Still, this name makes me think of little girls from a couple of centuries back.

-- slight night shiver  6/4/2008

Ida is a character in the books/movies about Emil of the Maple Hills (Swedish: Emil I Lönneberga) written by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

-- Emerson  7/18/2008

It also means East in Estonian.

-- elilont  8/10/2008

In Italy Ida was popular in the second half of the 19th century: it was the 6th most popular name in Rome in 1876. Today it is quite unfashionable.

-- presentperfect  12/22/2008

The Italian pronunciation is EE-dah. [noted -ed]

-- presentperfect  12/22/2008

Ida Maria is a Norwegian rock singer.

-- rubberduckiiz2  5/27/2009

From Edward Gorey's sick and twisted poem, The Gashlycrumb Tinies: "I is for Ida who drowned in a lake".

Ida is also the name of one of the girls from Katy Towell's Childrin R Skary website.

-- rain-angel03  7/19/2009

Ida is a Hindu goddess of the earth, abundant food, and nourishment. She is also the granter of any blessings evoked through her.

-- MaggieSimpson  7/28/2009

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