Ida
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Ida
Many vowel names stylish a century ago are coming back, and Ida seems like a possible, logical successor to Ada and Ava.
A century ago, Ida was considered "sweet as apple cider," and was Number 10 on the hit parade of names. Its popularity then was inspired by a Tennyson poem, of which the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Princess Ida, was a "respectful operatic perversion."
Ida hasn't been in the Top 1000 since the 1980s, but we do see it as slated to rise again. It is hugely popular right now in Scandinavia and German-speaking parts — Top 100 in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Austria — where it's pronounced EE-da.
Ida appears in Greek and Hindu mythology; Mount Ida, on Crete, is considered the birthplace of the god Zeus. Journalist Ida B. Wells was its most well-known bearer in the US.
Ida is also given to boys.
Pronounced EYE-duh.
As of October 2026, Ida ranked #1120 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #7 in 1881, Nameberry popularity #315.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,495 | 149 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #1,430 | 162 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #1,246 | 196 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #1,304 | 180 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #1,216 | 193 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #1,264 | 184 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #1,178 | 197 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #1,113 | 222 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #1,104 | 226 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #1,189 | 202 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #1,143 | 211 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #1,120 | 209 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Ida on lists
Famous Idas
- Saint Ida of HerzfeldGirl
German duchess devoted to the poor
- Ida LupinoGirl
English,American actress
- Ida Minerva TarbellGirl
American muckraking journalist
- Ida Bell WellsGirl
American journalist and civil rights leader
- Ida Saxton McKinleyGirl
U.S. First Lady as wife of President William McKinley
- IdaGirl
Princess of Saxe,Meiningen; Princess of Saxe,Weimar,Eisenach
- Ida Matilda AdelaideGirl
Princess of Schaumburg,Lippe, Princess Reuss of Greiz; mother,in,law of Wilhelm II
- IdaGirl
Princess of Anhalt,Bernburg,Schaumburg,Hoym; Hereditary Princess of Oldenburg
- Ida CarolineGirl
Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont; Princess consort of Schaumberg,Lippe
- Ida RubinsteinGirl
Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure
- Ida Maria (Børli Sivertsen)Girl
Norwegian singer
- Ida de TosnyGirl
mistress of King Henry II of England
- Ida Pauline RolfGirl
American biochemist; creator of Structural Integration or "Rolfing"
- Ida Helen OgilvieGirl
American educator and geologist
- Ida CorrGirl
Danish singer,songwriter
- Ida LjungqvistGirl
Tanzanian,Swedish model
- Ida Østergaard MadsenGirl
Danish pop singer
- Ida Gjølga JenshusGirl
Norwegian country music singer
- Ida ApplebroogGirl
American painter
- Ida DwingerGirl
Danish actress
- Ida FinkGirl
Polish,Israeli author
- Ida HaendelGirl
Polish,British violinist
- Ida KamińskaGirl
Russian,Polish actress
- Idalia Maria "Ida" KurczGirl
Polish psychologist
- Ida ŁotockaGirl
Huelle, Polish painter
- Ida Henriette da FonsecaGirl
Danish opera singer
- Ida NowakowskaGirl
Polish actress
- Ida Amanda "Maxida" MärakGirl
Swedish,Sami jojk,singer, hip hop artist and activist
Ida in pop culture
- Ida SvenssonGirl
character in Astrid Lindgren's "Emil of Lönneberga"
- Ida Quagmire (born Dan Quagmire)Girl
character on TV's "Family Guy"
- "Little Ida's FlowersGirl
" short story by Hans Christian Andersen.
- Ida LebensteinGirl
character in 2013 Polish film "Ida"
- IdaGirl
character in Jaishankar Prasad's poem "Kamayani"
- Ida BarlowGirl
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- "Princess IdaGirl
" comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and its main character
- Ida BorejkoGirl
character in the "Jeżycjada" series by Małgorzata Musierowicz
- Ida JungmanGirl
character in "Bunderbrookowie" by Tomasz Mann
- Ida CorwinGirl
character in "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain
- "Ida"Girl
the Lost Princess in mobile game "Monument Valley"
- "IdaGirl
Sweet as Apple Cider," popular song written by Eddie Munson
- Ida Vanderboom (maiden name Reiziger)Girl
character in Rusty Lake: Roots
- Ida WelkerGirl
character in series "Malcolm in the Middle"
- Ida PerezGirl
character from “Just Add Magic”