Entry № 4426 · Germanic origin

Ida Ida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EYE-dah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Germanic

Meaning

"Industrious (Ida B. Wells, pioneering Black journalist)"

Syllables

First recorded

Medieval (Germanic)

The meaning

A name that means "industrious (ida b. wells, pioneering black journalist)".

Ida is from the Old Germanic id ("work, labor"). Ida B. Co-founder of the NAACP (1909).

Industrious (Ida B. Wells, pioneering Black journalist) — a Germanic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ida

Transliteration: Ida
Pronunciation: / ˈaɪ.də /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ida stands.

Ida does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Idas before her.

Real people

Ida B. Wells

Pioneering Black American journalist.

1862 – 1931

Ida Tarbell

American muckraking journalist.

1857 – 1944

In fiction

Ida

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida.

2013 film

Names connected to Ida.

Numerology

The number behind Ida.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ida reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.