Îdå
surname · Latin script
Îdå is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century.
- SESweden1 in 187(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 260
- NONorway1 in 272
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Îdå itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #812 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- 1 in 187 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Ada, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ida in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 3 more, Ada in NG Nigeria, HK Hong Kong and Eda in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century.
Cited for this meaning 14
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Îdå counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #487 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ada | 106 |
| TR Türkiye | #286 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 868 | 2.6K | Eda | 124 |
| SE Sweden | #36 | 54,522 | 1 in 187 | 55K | Ida | 139 |
| US United States | #417 | 42,677as Ada | 1 in 7.8K | 42K | Ida | 431 |
| IT Italy | #705 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 148 | Ida | 81 |
| DK Denmark | #137 | 22,571 | 1 in 260 | 23K | Ida | 159 |
| NO Norway | #72 | 20,093 | 1 in 272 | 61K | Ida | 120 |
| HK Hong Kong | #31 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 480 | — | Ada | 72 |
| FI Finland | #799 | 14,686 | 1 in 379 | 32K | Ida | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Îdå mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Ida. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1351, but not in general use before the 19th century. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 12 other sources.
- In which country does Îdå have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 118 thousand people named Ada in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Îdå most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Îdå is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 187 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Îdå?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 54,522 people named Îdå, about 1 in 187 residents.
- How common is Îdå compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Îdå is the 487th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AEd%C3%A5The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Îdå” — the 487th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.