Bidah
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: bid'a: heretical innovation in Islamic religious beliefs or worship
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bidah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 495K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 10M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈640 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bid'a: heretical innovation in Islamic religious beliefs or worship
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bidah is read(measured from records)
Bidah is one spelling over 2 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.
- Malay74%
bid'a: heretical innovation in Islamic religious beliefs or worship
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
Alternative form of bid'a.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bidah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Bidah | 15 |
| MA Morocco | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 495K | — | Bidah | 18 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Bidah | 23 |
| PH Philippines | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Bidah | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 13 | — | 2 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Bidah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nv, downward from a height
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bidah mean, and where does it come from?
- bid'a: heretical innovation in Islamic religious beliefs or worship Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bidah a male or female name?
- Bidah 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 Bidah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 640 people named Bidah in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bidah.
- How common is the name Bidah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 640 people in Malaysia have Bidah as their first given name, about 1 in 51 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Bidah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bidahThe 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, “Bidah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.