Aida

What Aida means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Aida yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #473 vs #1,413 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aida?

US: Steady: #1302 in 2015, #1413 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #745 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 243 girls got the name (#1004 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 10,437 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,015 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.38 per 1,000 girls), MA (0.29 per 1,000 girls), PA (0.24 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Aida is #1413 in the US and #473 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Aida were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ada1,401 US · 1,014 E&W
• Ida209 US · 126 E&W
• Ayda74 US · 165 E&W
• Adah110 US · 10 E&W
• Idy46 US
• Eda22 US · 18 E&W
• Ita25 US · 6 E&W
• Addy30 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Aida

Girls

• Luciana#273Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #273 vs #1,809 in 2025
• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*
• Alessandra#443Italian form of Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Franco#746Editor’s note Up from #873 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 in the US
• Maximo#580Editor’s note Up from #853 in 2015 to #580 in 2025 in the US
• Rocco#459Editor’s note Up from #463 in 2015 to #459 in 2025 in the US
• Joaquin#355Spanish form of Joachim, meaning “may Yahweh raise up”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Aida’s. Rank is US 2025.