Leida

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of Aleida (see Adalhaid) [1]

2) Estonian new name (1884) from Estonian leidma = 'to find' [1]

Related Names

Leida Danish Finish Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Leida
Genitive: Leidas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Leida
Genitive: Leidan
Partitive: Leidaa
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Leida
Genitive: Leidas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden: 1895 (Göteborg, Västergötland) [2]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 154 people were named Leida (percentage of first or only given name: 95 %) [3]

Statistics

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Leida.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)