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Ida

Ida: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“work, labor”
Origin
Germanic
Say it
EYE-duh · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

From a Germanic name element id meaning work or activity. It was also reinforced by use in Scandinavian and English naming traditions.

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How popular is Ida?

202463.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Ida in 2024211

2024 rank#1,141 girls

Peak year1886

Total US babies since 1880188,480

Ida is rising: use over the last five years is 2.0× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Ida

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Emmawhole, universal · Germanic
  • Ameliawork · Germanic
  • Ellaall, completely · Germanic
  • Alicenoble type · Germanic
  • Adelinenoble · Germanic
  • Emeryindustrious ruler · Germanic
  • Milliegentle strength · Germanic
  • Aubreyelf ruler · Germanic

Ida questions

What does the name Ida mean?

Ida means "work, labor". It comes from Germanic. From a Germanic name element id meaning work or activity. It was also reinforced by use in Scandinavian and English naming traditions.

Is Ida a boy or girl name?

Ida is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Ida?

211 US babies were named Ida in 2024. Its peak year was 1886.

How do you pronounce Ida?

Ida is usually pronounced EYE-duh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.