# Aida (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aida/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,782 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 13,777 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,319, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 147 | 1,509 |
| 2012 | 167 | 1,390 |
| 2013 | 150 | 1,479 |
| 2014 | 153 | 1,464 |
| 2015 | 184 | 1,302 |
| 2016 | 196 | 1,241 |
| 2017 | 167 | 1,379 |
| 2018 | 175 | 1,299 |
| 2019 | 186 | 1,251 |
| 2020 | 190 | 1,206 |
| 2021 | 179 | 1,284 |
| 2022 | 196 | 1,227 |
| 2023 | 190 | 1,232 |
| 2024 | 187 | 1,242 |
| 2025 | 154 | 1,414 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 6,740 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 1,117 |
| 2012 | 26 | 1,253 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,400 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 52 | 745 |
| 2016 | 64 | 655 |
| 2017 | 72 | 589 |
| 2018 | 96 | 454 |
| 2019 | 96 | 439 |
| 2020 | 111 | 390 |
| 2021 | 138 | 343 |
| 2022 | 118 | 361 |
| 2023 | 102 | 404 |
| 2024 | 102 | 418 |
| 2025 | 84 | 473 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Աիդա
- French: Aïda
- Italian: Aida
- Polish: Aida
- Portuguese: Aída
- Russian: Аи́да
- Spanish: Aída

## People named Aida

- Aida Turturro, American actress
- Aida Imanguliyeva, Azerbaijani academic (1939–1992)
- Aida El-Kashef, Egyptian actress
- Aida de Acosta, American aviator
- Aida Begić, Bosnian film director and screenwriter
- Aída Quilcué, Colombian indigenous leader and politician
- Aida Muluneh, Ethiopian photographer and contemporary artist (born 1974)
- Aída Bortnik, Argentine screenwriter (1938-2013)
- Aída dos Santos, Brazilian athlete
- Aida Overton Walker, American vaudeville performer (1880-1914)
- Aida Abdullayeva, Azerbaijani harpist (1922-2009)
- Aida Pierce, actress from Mexico

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.