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Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) German short form of names containing the name element ID (especially Idaberga, see Idburg) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
2) Pet form of Adelaida and Adelaide (see Adalhaid) [2] [8] [1] [9] [11]
3) German short form of names containing the name element HILD [1] [7]
4) Short form of Iraida [12]
See also -a
Related Names
See also Eida, Iippa, Iira, Iita, Îta
For male forms see Idar, Ido and Idor
Male
Iduson
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Female
Idudóttir
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Cognates
Combinations
For combinations see ID (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Genitive: |
Idas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Accusative: |
Idu
|
Dative: |
Idu
|
Genitive: |
Idu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Genitive: |
Idan
|
Partitive: |
Idaa
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Accusative: |
Idu
|
Dative: |
Idu
|
Genitive: |
Idu
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Genitive: |
Idas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ida
|
Genitive: |
Idas
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
4 September
|
Norway
|
4 September
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
14 September
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Sweden
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14 September
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 16,995 people were named Ida (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %) [15]
- Main character in Hans Christian Andersen's story Den lille Idas blomster ('Little Ida's flowers', 1835)
- Lilla Ida (Little Ida) is the little sister of Emil, the main character in Astrid Lindgren's famous Emil-books
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[16] |
|
28642 |
52966 |
28637 |
52954 |
5 |
12 |
Denmark[18] |
|
21014 |
n.a. |
21012 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
Finland[20] |
|
n.a. |
31377 |
n.a. |
31377 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[21] |
|
74 |
265 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[22] |
|
29 |
44 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[17] |
|
19423 |
n.a. |
19423 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [16][18][17][20]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [23]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Ida (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2025).
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables