Aida (name)
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| Gender | Female |
| Meaning | unclear |
| Origin | Egyptian, African |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Aida |
Aida (pronounced ['ɑ‿ɪɖɐ]) is female given name. Variants of name are: Ada, Aeeda, Aide, Aidee, Ade, Ayeeda, Ieeda and Iyeeda.[1]
Name day is on August 31 in memory of Saint Aidano (in Italy?)[2] and on July 28 (and on January 2 too?) in Poland.[3]
There are 34,496 people named Aida in The United States.[4]
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[edit] Origin and meaning
The name was invented by Auguste Mariette for his sketch of the plot which Giuseppe Verdi later used for his opera of the same title, Aida.[5]It is probably derived from an alternation of the Egyptian name Iiti. In the opera, Aida is the name of an Ethiopian princess.
Unrelated to this origin, Aida is also sometimes traced to African languages; in Igbo Ada means "daughter", while in Yoruba ade means "royal one".
[edit] Note
Aida (間) is also a Japanese name.
[edit] Notable people named Aida
- Aída Álvarez (born 1950), Puerto Rican politician and journalist
- Aida Turturro (born 1962), American actress
- Aida Yespica (born 1982), Venezuelan beauty queen
[edit] References
- ^ Baby Name Aida - Origin and Meaning of Aida
- ^ Italian Baby Names: Aida
- ^ Polish wikipedia. Aida February 2nd 2007
- ^ http://howmanyofme.com/search/ February 2 2007
- ^ Jon SOLOMON The Rosetta Stone, Ptolemaic Aetos, and Aida
