Ayda

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Aida in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 13 more, Аида in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Ida in SE Sweden, PL Poland, HR Croatia and 1 more and עאידה in IL Israel, FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ayda is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Turkish given name18K records spelled Ayda6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Iran

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Aydà, Äydä, Äÿda

• French given name2.0K records spelled Ayda4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Tunisia

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Àyda, Aÿdā

• Amharic given name85 records spelled Ayda2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, Ethiopia

  Also written Áydá

• Pashto given name73 records spelled Ayda2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Iran, Türkiye, Syria

  Also written َayda

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ayda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, returning, visitor

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Cebuano, a pressurized kerosene lamp

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 103 years between 1913–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ayda Akselb. 1962TRTurkish actor (born 1962)
• Ayda Fieldb. 1979USAmerican actress and model
• Ayda Arbatlıb. 1980TRTurkish-German painter, actress, screenwriter
• Ayda Hadizadehb. 1982IRIranian and French politician (born 1982)
• Ayda Jebatb. 1992MYMalaysian singer and actress
• Ayda Kendib. 2000TRTurkish taekwondoin (born 2000)
• Ayda ArelTRTurkish art historian

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 460 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ayda?

We estimate roughly 249 thousand people bear Ayda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Ayda have the most bearers?

Ayda is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled aida.

Where is Ayda most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ayda is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 187 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Ayda compared with other names?

In Argentina, Ayda is the 352nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Ayda a male or female name?

Ayda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Ayda mean?

Recorded meaning: Dere kıyılarında, çayırlarda yetişen bir bitki.