Eda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of electoral district association
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ed̪a/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 31st most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 837(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 187as Ida
- DKDenmark1 in 260as Ida
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 Eda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #812 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 837 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Ida, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
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 2 more and Ada in NG Nigeria, HK Hong Kong, CN China.
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)
Initialism of electoral district association.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Eda is read(measured from records)
Eda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish75%
1. Davranış, tavır. 2. Naz, işve.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English7.0%
Initialism of electoral district association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aboriginal; a small grey owl
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Spanish6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Eda in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ada | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | #286 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 837 | 2.6K | Eda | 124 |
| NG Nigeria | #487 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ada | 106 |
| SE Sweden | #36 | 54,522as Ida | 1 in 187 | 55K | Ida | 139 |
| US United States | #417 | 42,677as Ada | 1 in 7.8K | 42K | Ida | 431 |
| DK Denmark | #137 | 22,571as Ida | 1 in 260 | 23K | Ida | 159 |
| NO Norway | #72 | 20,093as Ida | 1 in 272 | 61K | Ida | 120 |
| HK Hong Kong | #31 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 489 | — | Ada | 72 |
| FI Finland | #799 | 14,686as Ida | 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). 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)
Eda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bbc, sister-in-law (husband's sister or brother's wife)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bpz, something used to climb up something else ([Jonker 1908](Source#cldf:jonker1908)); ladder of house ([Fox 1993](Source#cldf:fox1993a))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swahili, a waiting period upon a woman after her marriage has ended
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)
- Eda Nemoede Castertonb. 1877USAmerican artist (1877-1969)
- Eda Warrenb. 1903USAmerican film editor (1903-1980)
- Eda Reiss Merinb. 1913USAmerican actress (1913–1998)
- Eda-Ines Ettib. 1981EEEstonian singer (born 1981)
- Eda Özerkanb. 1984TRTurkish actor (born 1984)
- Eda Erdemb. 1987TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1987)
- Eda Eceb. 1990TRTurkish actor (born 1990)
- Eda Ahib. 1990EEEstonian poet (born 1990)
- Eda Döğerb. 2006TRTurkish actor (born 2006)
- Eda Kowanfilm producer
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 88 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,176 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 562 | #2,553 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 422 | #2,815 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 314 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 307 | #778 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 270 | #1,494 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 123 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #14,683 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #6,176 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Eda mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of electoral district association. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Eda?
- A machine transcription gives /ed̪a/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Eda a male or female name?
- Eda 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.
- In which country does Eda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Ida in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Eda?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 54,522 people named Ida, about 1 in 187 residents.
- How common is Eda compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Eda is the 31st most common given name of 23,276 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/edaThe 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, “Eda” — the 31st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.