Aida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Likely Arabic or Latin literary name; origin uncertain
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aida/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Kyrgyzstan it is the 42nd most common given name.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 329(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 816
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 851
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 Aida 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #878 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 329 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Аида in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.
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)
Likely Arabic or Latin literary name; origin uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aida 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #300 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Aida | 83 |
| ID Indonesia | #634 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Aida | 132 |
| RU Russia | #212 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | #172 | Аида | 158 |
| US United States | #874 | 33,710 | 1 in 9.9K | 34K | Aida | 382 |
| AR Argentina | #314 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 65 | Aida | 88 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #148 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 747 | 27K | Аида | 51 |
| EC Ecuador | #157 | 20,713 | 1 in 816 | 21K | Aida | 44 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #42 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | — | Аида | 26 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #101 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 851 | 190 | Аида | 34 |
| SI Slovenia | #608 | 3,666as Ajda | 1 in 574 | 3.8K | Aida | 10 |
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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; INEC — civil registry names; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Aida 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 English, Synonym of Aida cloth.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Aida (Ayda) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord med två betydelser: ’besökare’ eller ’återkomst’. I Norden blev namnet först känt genom Giuseppe Verdis opera Aida (med premiär 1871); det började användas här från 1880-talet och framåt.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, opera, Verdi
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Forme dérivée d’Adélaïde, du germanique; signifie « noble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, aus dem Italienischen übernommener weibl. Vom., verselbstständigte Kurzform von Namen, die mit »Aide-« (zu ahd. alt »alt, erfahren« oder ahd. adal »edel, vornehm;
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Aida de Acostab. 1884USAmerican aviator
- Aida Fahmyb. 1917EGEgyptian feminist
- Aida Stuckib. 1921CHSwiss violinist (1921-2011)
- Aida Turturrob. 1962USAmerican actress
- Aida Touma-Slimanb. 1964ILPalestinian politician, member of Israeli Knesset
- Aida Begicb. 1976BABosnian film director and screenwriter
- Aida Osetb. 1983ESSpanish actress
- Aida Folchb. 1986ESSpanish actress
- Aida Garifullinab. 1987RURussian opera singer
- Aida Hadzialicb. 1987SESwedish politician
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 114 sources across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34K | #1,170 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 21K | #105 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 611 | #268 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 607 | #537 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 190 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 154 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 108 | #1,170 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 65 | #931 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 29 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Aida mean, and where does it come from?
- Likely Arabic or Latin literary name; origin uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Aida?
- A machine transcription gives /aida/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Aida a male or female name?
- Aida 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 Aida?
- In the etymology graph, Ayda and Ajda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Aida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Aida in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aida.
- How common is the name Aida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,710 people named Aida in 2020, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Aida compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Aida is the 300th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aidaThe 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, “Aida” — the 300th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.