Ida

Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪdə/

Ida

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 127:

     "Ida!!!"
     "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
     Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 16:

     That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity

   • 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, I'l Take You There, Fourth Estate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 18:

     "Ida" - the name was magical to me. In whispers, in the dark. Beneath bedcovers. Forehead pressed to a windowpane coated with frost. "Ida". What a strange, beautiful name: I could not say it often enough: it was easy to confuse "Ida" with "I" - - -

• Fairly common given name in the 19th century, but rare in the English-speaking world today.

• Ide

Two possible origins:

• Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, “rice paddy by the well”).
• Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida.

Ida (plural Idas)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ida is the 41038^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Ida is most common among White (51.98%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (40.3%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ida”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 224.

From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Ida

1. (Greek mythology) Name of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.

Borrowed from Slovak Ida.

Ida

1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

• -iad, AID, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, IAD, aid, dai, dia-

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪda]

Ida f

1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

From German Ida.

Ida

1. a female given name
   • 1835, Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Little Ida's Flowers, Den lille Idas blomster:

     "Mine stakkels blomster er ganske døde!" sagte den lille Ida.

     "My poor flowers, you are wither'd!" said little Ida.

• Popular in the 19th century and recently back in fashion.
• H.C. Andersen's Little Ida (see the quotation) was actually named Adelaide Brun.

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 22 062 females with the given name Ida have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.daː/

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• Hyphenation: Ida

Ida f

1. a female given name

Ida f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Ida: Iduson
• daughter of Ida: Idudóttir

Name of early female saints, shortened from compound given names beginning with Germanic element Ida-, Idu-. The meaning is debated, possibly cognate with the Old Norse ið (“work”), or related to the goddess Iðunn. Since its revival in the 19th century also used as a diminutive of Adelaide.

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Ida

1. a female given name

Of Germanic origin. See German Ida.

• IPA^(key): [ˈidɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ida
• Rhymes: -dɒ

Ida

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /í.dá/

Ídá

1. Idah (a city in Nigeria), the capital city of the Ígáláà people
2. (historical) the capital of the Igala Kingdom

• English: Idah

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/
• Rhymes: -ida
• Hyphenation: Ì‧da

Ida f

1. a female given name, equivalent to German Ida

• adì, dai, dia

• Īdē

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.da/, [ˈiːd̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/, [ˈiːd̪ä]

Īda f sg (genitive Īdae); first declension

1. A mountain of Crete, where Jupiter was hidden by his mother
2. A mountain situated near Troy

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Īdaeus

• “Ida”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ida in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ida”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From German Ida. First recorded in Norway in 1660, but not in general use before the 19th century.

Ida

1. a female given name

• Popular in the 19th century and once again today. The most common name of girls born in Norway in the 1990s.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 273 females with the given name Ida living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1990. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.da/

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• Rhymes: -ida
• Syllabification: I‧da

Borrowed from German Ida.

Ida f

1. a female given name from German, equivalent to English Ida

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Ida f

1. (Greek mythology) Ida, Ide (one of the nurses of the infant Zeus on Crete)

• Ida in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Homophone: ida

Ida f

1. a female given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Ida

• IPA^(key): [ˈida]

Ida f (genitive singular Idy, nominative plural Idy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• “Ida”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century.

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Ida c (genitive Idas)

1. a female given name

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 48 005 females with the given name Ida living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.