Meaning & Origin
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Ida is a girl's and boy's baby name of Germanic origin, from the Old High German Ida, derived from the element id meaning "work" or "labor" — possibly related to the concept of industrious activity. It was also the name of a mountain in Crete and one in Turkey, both with mythological significance.
Ida was a U.S. top-10 girls' name in the 1880s and 1890s. Ida B. Wells, the fearless investigative journalist and civil rights activist who exposed the horrors of lynching in the 1890s, gave the name a legacy of moral courage that few names can match. Short, vivid, and historically extraordinary.