Bida
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Bida is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běda. Compare kobita. Bida is also written Біда in Cyrillic.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 55K
- SISlovenia1 in 105K
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 Bida 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 named Біда, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bida in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Біда in UA Ukraine and Бида in RU Russia.
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)Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běda. Compare kobita.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where the surname Bida is found
(measured from records)Bida 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)Bida is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cau-and-pro, 1 dirt 2 diarrhea
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Cebuano, used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wlo, Butonese fabric, formerly made of local cotton
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, Djemaa Saharidj (an ancient city in Algeria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, protagonist; main character (of a story)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nup, Bida (a city in Niger, Nigeria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Alexandre Bidab. 1813FRFrench painter (1813-1895)
- Adriano Bidab. 1942botanical collector (1942 - )
- Habib Bidab. 1953TNTunisian painter
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)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bida mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *běda. Compare kobita. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bida?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Біда in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Algeria, Brazil, Poland and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bida?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 844 people named Bida, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bida?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bidaThe 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, “Bida”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.