Idah

given name · Swahili · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Idah is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in Swahili and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • ZMZambia1 in 813◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 11K
  • KEKenya1 in 14K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈72 ●

across 2 countries

Sources
54 ●

8.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 152K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Idah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa—3,0973.1K rec.——Idah24
ZM Zambia#1172,61624 rec.——Idah11
KE Kenya#9002,005655 rec.——Idah24
NG Nigeria—1,1541.9K rec.——Idah31
US United States—9191.1K rec.—7Idah54
MY Malaysia—484867 rec.——Idah19
GB United Kingdom—14597 rec.——Idah23
SG Singapore—91136 rec.——Idah16
MW Malawi#419852 rec.——Idah5
SE Sweden—67△10 rec.1 in 152K67—6
AU Australia—6565 rec.——Idah16
ZW Zimbabwe#9364117 rec.——Idah10

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Swahili7.2K43%
  • Indonesian4.1K24%
  • English3.1K18%
  • Malay5613%
  • Arabic2161%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili7,19943%
Indonesian4,08824%
English3,10118%
Malay5613%
Arabic2161%

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◐

Idah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name8.4K records spelled Idah3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Idåh

40 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.

Over time●

020406020002005201020152020

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Idah in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199911
200011
200114
200215
200315
200418
200520
200623
200723
200827
200930
201032
201135
201235
201338
201440
201543
201643
201745
201846
201947
202049

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Idah Meacham Strobridge, b. 1855Idah Sithole-Niang, b. 1957Idah Peterside, b. 1974Nabayiga Idah, b. 1979

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●

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Idah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—67#11,190
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202049—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201947—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201846—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201745—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201643—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201543—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201440—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201338—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201235—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201135—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201032—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Idah?
We estimate roughly 72 people bear Idah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Idah have the most bearers?
Idah is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled idah.
How common is Idah compared with other names?
In Zambia, Idah is the 117th most common given name of 8,241 given names recorded there.
Is Idah a male or female name?
Idah 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Idah” — the 117th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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