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Aida

#1,414 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Ayda

Aida has been given to 13,782 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #1,414 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 243 recorded.

Babies named Aida, 2025

1 in 21,500

Aida over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aida: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ayda

Italian

What Aida means

Aida is a variant of Ayda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aida → Ayda. The family’s meaning is “returning, visitor”, recorded in the naming reference for Ayda.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aida (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aida is used in English, Asturian, Cebuano, Finnish, Italian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Italian.

Aida comes through Italian Aida.

Aida is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ayda and Adele.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Aida is pronounced /ˈai̯da/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,777 girls were recorded with the name Aida between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 243 in 2005; its best national rank was #667 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,206 in 2020 to #1,414 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,302 in 2015 to #1,414 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Aida between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #6,734 in 1986.

How common is Aida?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,500
154 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,414
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,923 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,923 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aida was born before 1977 — so the typical Aida is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
12.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,353
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 12.7% of all recorded uses (1,750).

Is Aida rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−172
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−208
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−112
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.4%
Peak was 2005 (243)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#667
1954

Spellings of Aida

Aida is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 18.2% against Aida's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aida is used

Across 2016–2025, Aida was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 9,264 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  2. 2New York1 in 5,882
  3. 3Georgia1 in 6,667
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
  5. 5California1 in 7,143
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 7,143
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 7,692
  8. 8Florida1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aida around the world

Where Aida ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #473
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #239
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #371
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #237
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aida

People whose public names include Aida, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aida in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aida. Linked forms have their own page here.

IdaAydaAdelaidaHeiða

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aida by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,414
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 208
Best rank ever
#667
1954
Peak year
2005
243 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,777
Count in 2025
154

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,734
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aida

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VidaAideLidaJaidaAidanFridaElidaAidenFreidaAlidaZaidaNidaMaidaAidynRidaNaidaOuidaSaidaAidelAidyIdaAleidaVaidaAidee

Names with a curve like Aida

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aida, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GeorginaRosarioSusannaEstelaLibbyMagdalenaMoiraLeaEvangelinaMilagrosIngridLani

Sibling names for Aida

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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