Ida (given name)
Ida is a given name occurring independently in several cultures. The name also occurs as an anglicisation of the Irish girl's given name Íde. [1]
In Greek mythology
- Ida, daughter of Corybas and mother of Minos
- Ida or Ide, the nymph of Mount Ida and one of the nurses of Zeus
In Indian culture
- Ida (goddess), a goddess in Hinduism
- Ida, a character in Jaishankar Prasad's poem Kamayani
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Elsewhere
| Ida | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Ancient Germanic |
| Meaning | Work, labour |
| Other names | |
| Derived | Old Norse 'ið' meaning 'deed' or 'action' |
| Related names | Iida, Idella |
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Ida is a female name derived from a Germanic word id, meaning "labor, work."[2] Alternately, it may be related to the name of the Old Norse goddess Iðunn. It is a currently popular name in Scandinavia 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.
Its name day is on February 16 in Slovakia, March 15 in the Czech Republic, on September 4 in Germany, Norway and Poland, on September 14 in Sweden and Finland. It is also a Yiddish female name and an Old English masculine name, derived from the same Germanic root.[3][4]
- Royalty, nobility, religion
- Ida of Bernicia (d. c. 559), king of Bernicia, a kingdom in what is now northeastern England
- Ida of Lorraine (also referred to as Blessed Ida of Boulogne) (c. 1040-1113), saint and noblewoman
- Ida, Countess of Boulogne (c. 1160-1216), countess of Boulogne
- Saint Ita (also known as Ida) (d. 570/577), Irish nun
- Darwinius, fossil nicknamed "Ida"
- Modern / Contemporary
- Ida (singer) (full name Ida Madsen) (born 1994), Danish singer, winner of Danish X Factor (aka as Ida)
- Ida Dwinger, Danish actress
- Ida Göthilda Nilsson (1840-1920), Swedish sculptor
- Ida Henriette da Fonseca (1802-1858), Danish opera singer
- Ida Jenshus (b. 1987), Norwegian musician
- Ida Ljungqvist (b. 1981), Tanzanian-Swedish model, winner of Playmate of the Year 2009
- Ida Lupino (1918-1995), English-American actress and film director
- Ida Marie Lipsius, German writer
- Ida Nodel (born 1931), Russian-born Israeli refusenik
- Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960), Russian ballet dancer
- Ida Saxton (1847-1907), wife of President William McKinley
- Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944), journalist of the American progressive era
- Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), African American journalist, editor and early civil rights activist
Fictional
- Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera
- Ida Barlow, the mother of Ken and David Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
- Ida Lebenstein, protagonist in the 2013 Polish film Ida
References
- ↑ Ó Corráin, Donnchadh; Maguire, Fidelma. Irish Names. The Lilliput Press. ISBN 0 946640 661.
- ↑ Mike Campbell. "Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Ida". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
- ↑ A World of Baby Names By Teresa Norman Edition: revised Published by Perigee, 2003 ISBN 0-399-52894-6, 978-0-399-52894-1
- ↑ The manyfacèd glass: Tennyson's dramatic monologues By Linda K. Hughes Edition: 2 Published by Ohio University Press, 1987 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized 13 March 2008 ISBN 0-8214-0853-4, 978-0-8214-0853-7