Meaning and history
Ida is derived from the Germanic element id, possibly meaning “work” or “labour” (Proto-Germanic *idiz). The Normans brought the name to England, where it eventually fell out of use in the Middle Ages, but it was strongly revived in the 19th century, in part because of the heroine in Alfred Tennyson’s The Princess (1847), later adapted by Gilbert and Sullivan as Princess Ida (1884). Although its etymology is unrelated, Ida is also the name of a mountain on Crete associated in Greek myth with the birthplace of Zeus.
20062006: 85 births, rank #2,248
2007: 96 births, rank #2,101
2008: 103 births, rank #2,020
2009: 95 births, rank #2,119
2010: 104 births, rank #1,928
20112011: 100 births, rank #1,968
2012: 101 births, rank #1,940
2013: 118 births, rank #1,744
2014: 149 births, rank #1,493
2015: 163 births, rank #1,416
20162016: 196 births, rank #1,241
2017: 180 births, rank #1,303
2018: 193 births, rank #1,216
2019: 184 births, rank #1,259
2020: 197 births, rank #1,177
20212021: 222 births, rank #1,112
2022: 226 births, rank #1,104
2023: 203 births, rank #1,179
2024: 213 births, rank #1,135
20252025: 209 births, rank #1,120
Ida moved from #989 to #996 for girls between 1985 and 1986. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 4,450 births.