Name profile

Aida

This name is a variant of Ayda.

PronunciationArabic /ˈʕaː.ʔi.da/; English /ɑ.ˈiː.də/
Usage languagesAlbanian, Arabic, Bashkir, Bosnian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Literature, Polish, Spanish, Tatar
US rank (2025)#1,413

Meaning and history

Aída is a variant of Ayda. It was used in Verdi’s opera Aida (1871), where it is the name of an Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 150 births, rank #1,473
2007: 166 births, rank #1,424
2008: 176 births, rank #1,368
2009: 180 births, rank #1,334
2010: 154 births, rank #1,468
20112011: 147 births, rank #1,509
2012: 167 births, rank #1,390
2013: 150 births, rank #1,479
2014: 153 births, rank #1,464
2015: 184 births, rank #1,302
20162016: 196 births, rank #1,241
2017: 167 births, rank #1,379
2018: 175 births, rank #1,299
2019: 186 births, rank #1,251
2020: 190 births, rank #1,206
20212021: 179 births, rank #1,284
2022: 196 births, rank #1,227
2023: 190 births, rank #1,232
2024: 187 births, rank #1,242
20252025: 154 births, rank #1,413

Aida moved from #842 to #874 for girls between 1975 and 1976. Its highest annual birth count came in 1954, with 193 births.