Alida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Italian form of Adeline; Germanic origin, means « noble »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alida/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 69K
- ALAlbania1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of Adeline; Germanic origin, means « noble ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alida 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #811 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Alida | 61 |
| US United States | — | 4,826 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Alida | 298 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 21 | Alida | 53 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Alida | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,450 | 1 in 146K | 1.7K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,294 | 1 in 7.9K | 1.3K | Alida | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 807 | 1 in 6.8K | 2.8K | Alida | 28 |
| AL Albania | — | 613 | 1 in 5K | 613 | — | — |
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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Alida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Germanic/Latin feminine name, often a short form of Adelaide or related names.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Dutch, a diminutive of the female given name Adelheid
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, variante de Elida; también se cita como ‘Άλις en dórico.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Swedish, Alida är en nederländsk form av Adelheid, sammansatt av → Adel- och det fornhög tyska heit, heid som betyder ’karaktär, ursprung’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Féminin du groupe d’Aldo; germanique, « ancien ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alida Withoosb. 1661NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1661-1730)
- Alida Rouffeb. 1874FRFrench actress (1874–1949)
- Alida Bosshardtb. 1913NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations (1913-2007)
- Alida Vallib. 1921ITItalian actress (1921–2006)
- Blonde Dollyb. 1927NLnot in their usual nameDutch murder victim (1927–1959)
- Lidy Stoppelmanb. 1933NLnot in their usual nameDutch figure skater
- Alida Chellib. 1943ITactress, singer and TV-hostess
- Alida Rockefeller Messingerb. 1948USAmerican philanthropist
- Amy Melgarejob. 1985SEnot in their usual nameUruguayan actress
- Alida Dóra Gazsób. 2000HUHungarian sprint canoeist (2000–)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,022 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.8K | #878 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.7K | #6,621 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,414 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,422 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 807 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 613 | #789 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 305 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 26 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 21 | #562 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 21 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Alida mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian form of Adeline; Germanic origin, means « noble ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Alida?
- A machine transcription gives /alida/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Alida a male or female name?
- Alida is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Alida?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Alicia and Alice are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Alida in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alida.
- How common is the name Alida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,826 people named Alida in 2020, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Alida compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Alida is the 811th most common given name of 189,620 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Alida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alidaThe 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, “Alida” — the 811th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.