Vida

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Wida in ID Indonesia, SE Sweden, MY Malaysia and วิดา in TH Thailand.

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 11 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◐

Vida is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name54K records spelled Vida65 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Vïdã, Vîdã, Vîda, Vídã, Vïdå

• Croatian given name16K records spelled Vida31 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Russian

  Also written Віда, Видо, Wieda, Vyda, Vīḑä

• Indonesian given name3.4K records spelled Vida11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Ghana, Philippines

  Also written Vidã, Vīdä, Vîdâ, Vïdå, Vïdã

• a separate given name2.9K records spelled Vida2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Iran, United Kingdom

  Also written Vīdā

• Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Vida11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Vīḑä, Vïda, Vïdä, Vidä, Vída

62 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●

Vida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Hebrew; form of Davida, feminine version of David.

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• In Swedish, Vida har flera ursprung. Det kan vara en kortform av namn som Davida och Arvida, men det kan också ha slaviskt ursprung liksom vara ett lån av det spanska ordet vida ’liv’ (från latinets vita). Även ett persiskt namn Vida finns, då med betydelsen ’synlig, uppenbar’. Namnet användes en del i Sverige under 1800-talets andra hälft och har nått en viss popularitet de senaste åren.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, variante regional de Vita

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• a Mantrakara (P)

  as a name·Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

• In German, weibl. Vom., englische und schwedische

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vida Goldsteinb. 1869AUAustralian feminist politician (1869–1949)
• Vida Tomšičb. 1913SISlovenian communist (1913-1998)
• Vida Hopeb. 1918GBBritish actress (1918–1963)
• Vida Ghahremanib. 1937IRIranian actress (1937–2018)
• Vida Jermanb. 1939HRCroatian actress and Esperantist (1939–2011)
• Vida Ognjenovićb. 1941RSSerbian writer
• Vida Blueb. 1949USMajor League Baseball left-handed pitcher
• Vida Vencienėb. 1961LTLithuanian cross-country skier
• Vida Guerrab. 1974CUAmerican model
• Vida Samadzaib. 1978AFAfghan model

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 · 939 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vida?

We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Vida (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Vida have the most bearers?

We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Vida in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records.

Where is Vida most common?

Vida is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 171 people carrying it.

How common is Vida compared with other names?

In Ghana, Vida is the 139th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.

Is Vida a male or female name?

Vida 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 Vida mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish translation from the Hebrew “Chayyah” (life), in Spain.