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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Arabic 'a'idah = 'returning one', 'visitor' [1] [2]
2) Old Egyptian name of unknown meaning
3) Italian short form of Adelaida (see Adalhaid) [3]
4) Greek name of unknown meaning [4]
5) Variant spelling of Eida
6) Greek name meaning 'woman from Ethiopia' [5]
7) French name meaning 'helping' [5]
Related Names
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Aida
|
Genitive: |
Aidas
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Aida
|
Genitive: |
Aidan
|
Partitive: |
Aidaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Aida
|
Genitive: |
Aidas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Aida
|
Genitive: |
Aidas
|
Name Day
Finland
|
22 April
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 184 people were named Aida (percentage of first or only given name: 73 %) [6]
- Aida is the name of an Ethiopian princess in the opera Aida (Giuseppe Verdi, 1871)
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[7] |
|
1668 |
1985 |
1668 |
1983 |
0 |
2 |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
1426 |
n.a. |
1426 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[9] |
|
575 |
n.a. |
575 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
7 |
14 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[11] |
|
3 |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[12] |
|
669 |
n.a. |
669 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [7][9][12][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Evan Bogan: Navnebogen (2005)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no