Aida

Where Aida comes from

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.
— Wiktionary's entry for Aida
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #668
    193 babies named Aida — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    Aida Turturro born
    American actress
  4. 1987
    Aida Garifullina born
    Russian opera singer
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,753.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
Namesakes
  • Aida Garifullina · Russian opera singer, born 1987
  • Aida Turturro · American actress, born 1962
  • Aida Hadzialic · Swedish politician, born 1987
  • Aida Shanayeva · Russian foil fencer, born 1986
  • Aida Touma-Sliman · Palestinian politician, member of Israeli Knesset, born 1964

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.