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“Work” — Germanic origin
Girl's name · #1120 in the US (2025) · Comeback
Ida was #7 in 1880, slipped to #2254 by 2006, and has climbed back to #1120 today. Roughly 188,000 girls have been named Ida since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. In Minnesota and Wisconsin it runs 3–4× its national rate. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the Midwest today.
Around the world: #11 in Denmark (2025) · #33 in Austria (2025) · #37 in Norway (2025) · #73 in Poland (2025) · #80 in Sweden (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 22 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 1,722 notable people named Ida:
Artists & writers appear 1.44× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ida B. Wells, American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931).
Similar names: Nellie · Heidy · Vida · Etta · Ada · Della
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