Vida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish translation from the Hebrew Chayyah (life), in Spain
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vajdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 66th most common given name.
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 13Kas Wida
- USUnited States1 in 48Kas Veda
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 Vida 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 329 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 451 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 named Wida, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wida in ID Indonesia.
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)
Spanish translation from the Hebrew Chayyah (life), in Spain.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Vida, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vida 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Wida | 105 |
| GH Ghana | #66 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Vida | 59 |
| US United States | — | 7,001as Veda | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Vida | 329 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 451 | 16K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 4,278 | 1 in 492 | 4.3K | — | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,133 | 1 in 9K | 1.1K | Vida | 20 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,108 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
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; Registrų centras — top-50 given names; SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Vida 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, Hebrew; form of Davida, feminine version of David.
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In Swedish, Vida har flera ursprung. Det kan vara en kortform av namn som Davida och Arvida, men det kan också ha slaviskt ursprung liksom vara ett lån av det spanska ordet vida ’liv’ (från latinets vita). Även ett persiskt namn Vida finns, då med betydelsen ’synlig, uppenbar’. Namnet användes en del i Sverige under 1800-talets andra hälft och har nått en viss popularitet de senaste åren.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, variante regional de Vita
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
a Mantrakara (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In German, weibl. Vom., englische und schwedische
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)
- Vida Goldsteinb. 1869AUAustralian feminist politician (1869–1949)
- Vida Tomšičb. 1913SISlovenian communist (1913-1998)
- Vida Hopeb. 1918GBBritish actress (1918–1963)
- Vida Ghahremanib. 1937IRIranian actress (1937–2018)
- Vida Jermanb. 1939HRCroatian actress and Esperantist (1939–2011)
- Vida Ognjenovićb. 1941RSSerbian writer
- Vida Blueb. 1949USMajor League Baseball left-handed pitcher
- Vida Vencienėb. 1961LTLithuanian cross-country skier
- Vida Guerrab. 1974CUAmerican model
- Vida Samadzaib. 1978AFAfghan model
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 104 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,045 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 398 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 158 | #2,811 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Is Vida a male or female name?
- Vida 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 does the name Vida mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish translation from the Hebrew Chayyah (life), in Spain. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Vida?
- In the etymology graph, Vita is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vida?
- A machine transcription gives /vajdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Wida in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vida?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 4,278 people named Vida in 2025, about 1 in 492 residents.
- How common is Vida compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Vida is the 66th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vida?
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/vidaThe 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, “Vida” — the 66th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.