Ida is a feminine given name found in Europe and North America. It is popular in

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n countries, where it is pronounced Ee-da. The name has an ancient Germanic etymology, according to which it means ‘industrious’ or ‘prosperous’. It derives from the Germanic root ''id'', meaning "labor, work" (also found in " Iði"). Alternatively, it may be related to the name of the Old Norse goddess ''

Iðunn In Norse mythology, Iðunn is a goddess associated with apples and youth. Iðunn is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ''Prose Edda'', written in the 13th century by Snorri St ...

''. Ida also occurs as an anglicisation of the

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

feminine given name Íde. Ida is a currently popular name in the Nordic countries and is among the top 20 names given to girls born in 2019 in

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. 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. In an essay from

Frank Leslie Frank Leslie (March 29, 1821 – January 10, 1880) was an English-born American engraver, illustrator, and publisher of family periodicals. Biography English origins Leslie was born on March 29, 1821, in Ipswich, England as Henry Carter, the ...

's ''Sunday Magazine'' written in 1887, Ida is a favored name meaning "God-like". 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. Notable people with the name include:

People

Ida Applebroog Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American multi-media artist who is best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics. Applebroog has been the recipient of multiple ...

(born 1929), American painter * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader * Ida Baccini (1850–1911), Italian children's author *

Ida Barney Ida Barney (November 6, 1886 – March 7, 1982) was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yal ...

(1886–1982), American astronomer * Ida Botti Scifoni (1812–1844), Italian painter, sculptor and designer *

Ida Carloni Talli Ida Carloni Talli (31 January 1860 – 23 April 1940) was an Italian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 92 films between 1912 and 1924. She was born Rome and died in Milan. She made her debut as a stage actress in 1887.Ida Carlo ...

(1860–1940), Italian actress *

Ida Cook Ida Cook (24 August 190422 December 1986) was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and a romance novelist as Mary Burchell. Ida Cook and her sister Mary Louise Cook (1901–1991) rescued Jews from the Nazis during the 1930s. The sisters h ...

(1904–1986), British campaigner for Jewish refugees and romance novelist *

Ida Corr Ida Corr (born 14 March 1977 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Gambian-Danish singer, songwriter and music producer. Early life Ida Corr was born on the 14th of March 1977 to a Danish mother and a Gambian father in Aarhus, Denmark. Her father was a m ...

(born 1977), Danish singer and songwriter *

Ida, Countess of Boulogne Ida of Boulogne (c. 1160–1216) was suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1173 until her death. Life Ida was the elder daughter of Matthew of Alsace and Marie I, Countess of Boulogne. Her maternal grandparents were King Stephen of England and M ...

(1160–1216), French noblewoman *

Ida Di Benedetto Ida Di Benedetto (born 3 June 1945)Giorgio Dell'Arti, Massimo Parrini, ''Catalogo dei viventi 2009'' - voce Di Benedetto Ida, Venezia, Marsilio Editori, 2008, is an Italian actress and film producer. Biography Di Benedetto appeared in more tha ...

(born 1945), Italian actress and film producer *

Ida Dixon Ida Elizabeth Dixon (December 25, 1854 – November 22, 1916) was an American socialite and golf course architect from Pennsylvania. She was the first female golf course architect in the United States and perhaps in the world. She designed the ...

(1854-1916), American golf course architect *

Ida Dwinger Ida Dwinger (born 6 March 1957) is a Danish actress. She graduated from Odense Theater School in 1984. Filmography Movies * ''Open Hearts'' aka Dogme #28 (2002) * '' Facing the Truth'' (2002) * ''Reconstruction'' (2003) * ''Princess'' (200 ...

(born 1957), Danish actress *

Ida Horton East Ida Horton East (March 19, 1842–February 4, 1915) was an American philanthropist and social reformer. She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). Early life and ...

(1842-1915), American philanthropist * Ida Ekeroth Clausson (born 1991), Swedish politician * Ida Engberg (born 1984), Swedish techno DJ * Ida Finney Mackrille (1867–1960), American suffragist and women's political leader in California *

Ida Galli Ida Galli is an Italian film actress best known for her roles in Spaghetti Western and giallo films in the 1960s and 1970s. Galli has appeared under several pseudonyms, including Arianna, Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon. Extremely prolific, som ...

(born 1942), Italian actress *

Ida Haendel Ida Haendel, (15 December 19281 July 2020) was a Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher. Early career Born in 1928 to a Polish Jewish fam ...

(1928–2020), British violinist * Ida Henriette da Fonseca (1802–1858), Danish opera singer * Ida Jenshus (born 1987), Norwegian musician * Ida Kleijnen (1936–2019), Dutch chef *

Ida Krehm Ida Krehm (February 24, 1912 – August 12, 1998) was a Canadian-American pianist. She began playing the piano at the age of seven and studied at the Hamburg Conservatory. Krehm earned recognition as an orchestral soloist and recitalist with vario ...

(1912–1998), Canadian-American pianist * Ida Lewis (disambiguation), several people *

Ida Ljungqvist Ida Ljungqvist (born September 27, 1981) is a Tanzanian-Swedish model and the first African-born person to be selected as a Playboy Playmate of the Month and the 50th Playmate of the Year. Career She was discovered by 2007 Playmate of the Ye ...

(born 1981), Swedish model * Ida Loo-Talvari (1901–1997), Estonian opera singer *

Ida Lupino Ida Lupino (4 February 1918Recorded in ''Births Mar 1918'' Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, writer, and producer. T ...

(1918–1995), American actress and film director *

Ida Malosi Ida Malosi is a lawyer and judge from New Zealand. She is the country's first woman Pacific Island judge. Early life Malosi was raised in Bluff and Invercargill in the South Island of New Zealand. Malosi's parents were immigrants from Samoa; h ...

, lawyer and judge from New Zealand * Ida Marie Lipsius (1837–1927), German writer * Ida Madsen (born 1994), Danish singer *

Ida Elizabeth Brandon Mathis Ida Elizabeth Brandon Mathis (1857–1925) was an American farmer and businesswoman who advocated for methods that would improve conditions for Southern farmers, including crop diversification and rotation and better methods of financing for smal ...

(1857–1925), American businesswoman and farmers' advocate * Ida McCain (1884–after 1937), American architect *

Ida Nettleship Ida Margaret Nettleship (24 January 1877 – 14 March 1907) was an English artist who is best known as the first wife of artist Augustus John. Biography Nettleship was born in Hampstead, the eldest of the three daughters of animal painter J ...

(1877–1907), English artist * Ida Göthilda Nilsson (1840–1920), Swedish sculptor *

Ida Nilsson Ida Nilsson (born February 8, 1981) is a Swedish long-distance runner who also competes in ski mountaineering. In 2003 – 2006 she won a total of ten gold medals in Swedish championships in track & field and cross country running, plus two NCAA ...

(born 1981), Swedish trailrunner and ski mountaineer *

Ida Noddack Ida Noddack (25 February 1896 – 24 September 1978), '' née'' Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband - Walter Noddack - and Otto Berg she discov ...

(1896–1978), German scientist *

Ida Nudel Ida Yakovlevna Nudel ( he, אידה נודל; russian: Ида Яковлевна Нудель) (27 April 1931 – 14 September 2021) was a Soviet-born Israeli refusenik and activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to help ...

(1931–2021), Russian refusenik * Ida Odinga (born 1950), Kenyan businesswoman, activist and educator *

Ida of Bernicia Ida () (died c. 559) is the first known king of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia, which he ruled from around 547 until his death in 559. Little is known of his life or reign, but he was regarded as the founder of a line from which later Anglo-Saxo ...

(died 559), King of Bernicia *

Ida of Lorraine Ida of Lorraine (also referred to as Blessed Ida of Boulogne) () was a saint and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine and his wife Doda. Ida's grandfather was Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine and Ida's brother was Go ...

(1040–1113), French saint and noblewoman * Ida of Nivelles (1190–1231), beatified Belgian Cistercian nun and mystic * Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian explorer and writer * Ida Pinto-Sezzi (1852–????), Italian painter *

Ida Praetorius Ida Praetorius (born 1993) is a Danish ballet dancer. She joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 2010, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2016. In 2021, she joined the Hamburg Ballet as a principal dancer. Early life Praetorius was born in Cope ...

, Danish ballerina * Ida Quaiatti (1890–1962), Italian opera soprano *

Ida Redig Ida Carolina Redig (born 10 July 1987), also known as GIRL, is a Swedish singer, actress, music producer and songwriter. She participated in Melodifestivalen 2018 in the second semifinal with the song "Allting som vi sa", where she placed fifth an ...

(born 1987), Swedish singer, actress, music producer and songwriter *

Ida Rodríguez Prampolini Ida Rodríguez Prampolini (24 September 1925 – 26 July 2017) was a Mexican academic, art historian and cultural preservationist, who was heavily involved in the creation of organizations and institutions to preserve the artistic traditions of M ...

(1925–2017), Mexican academic, art historian and cultural preservationist *

Ida Rubinstein Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (russian: И́да Льво́вна Рубинште́йн; – 20 September 1960) was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. She performed with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 a ...

(1885–1960), Russian ballet dancer * Ida Mary Barry Ryan (1854-1917), American philanthropist * Ida Sammis (1865–1943), American suffragist and politician * Ida Saxton McKinley (1847–1907), American first lady and wife of President William McKinley * Ida Schreiter (1912–1948), German concentration camp warden executed for war crimes * Ida von Schulzenheim (1859–1940), Swedish painter *

Ida Scudder Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder (December 9, 1870 – May 24, 1960) was a third-generation American medical missionary in India. She dedicated her life to the plight of Indian women and the fight against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy. In 1918, sh ...

(1870–1960), American missionary *

Ida Štimac Ida Štimac (; born 13 May 2000) is a Croatian former alpine skier. She competed in the women's giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 dis ...

(born 2000), Croatian alpine skier *

Ida Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pione ...

(1857–1944), American journalist * Ida Vihuri (1882–1929), Finnish politician *

Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells (full name: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for ...

(1862–1931), American journalist and civil rights activist * Ida L. White (fl. 1862–1901), Irish poet, also published simply as "Ida" *

Ida Wood Ida Mayfield Wood, née Ellen Walsh (14 January 1838 – 12 March 1932) was an American socialite turned recluse who was the third wife of politician and newspaper publisher and editor Benjamin Wood (1820–1900). Early life and family She was ...

(1838–1932), American recluse * Ida Wyman (1926–2019), American photographer * Iida Yrjö-Koskinen (1857—1937), Finnish politician

Fictional characters

*Ida, in Jaishankar Prasad's poem ''

Kamayani ''Kamayani'' (Hindi : कामायनी) (1936) is a Hindi epic poem (Mahakavya) by Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937). It is considered one of the greatest literary works written in modern times in Hindi literature. It also signifies the epito ...

'' *Ida, protagonist in the ''Monument Valley'' video game *

Princess Ida ''Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant'' is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen. ''Princess Ida'' opened at the Savoy Theatre on 5 January 1884, for a ru ...

, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera *

Ida Barlow Ida Barlow (also Leathers) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera '' Coronation Street'', played by Noel Dyson between 1960 and 1961. Creation Casting Creator Tony Warren originally had Betty Alberge in mind for the part ...

, in the British television series ''Coronation Street'' * Ida Blankenship, in the American television series ''

Mad Men ''Mad Men'' is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. It ran on the cable network AMC from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015, lasting for seven seasons and 92 episodes. Its f ...

'' * Ida Davis, Glenn Quagmire's transgender mom on the American animated comedy series '' Family Guy'' *Ida Lebenstein, protagonist in the 2013 Polish film ''

Ida Ida or IDA may refer to: Astronomy * Ida Facula, a mountain on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter *243 Ida, an asteroid *International Docking Adapter, a docking adapter for the International Space Station Computing *Intel Dynamic Acceleration, a techn ...

'' *Ida Morgenstern, mother of Rhoda Morgenstern from ''

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (also known simply as ''Mary Tyler Moore'') is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. Mo ...

'' and '' Rhoda'' *Ida Svensson, in Astrid Lindgren's children's book '' Emil i Lönneberga'' *Ida, Arlo's mother in ''

The Good Dinosaur ''The Good Dinosaur'' is a 2015 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Sohn (in his feature directorial debut) an ...

'' *Ida, in '' Ida: A Novel'' by

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris ...

Other figures

*Ida, daughter of Corybas and mother of Minos, in Greek mythology *

Ida (goddess) Ila ( sa, इल) or Ilā ( sa, इला) is a deity in Hindu legends, known for their sex changes. As a man, he is known as Ila or Sudyumna and as a woman, is called Ilā. Ilā is considered the chief progenitor of the Lunar dynasty of Indian ...

, a goddess in Hinduism

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