Wida

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Vida in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 17 more 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

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

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

• English given name2.1K records spelled Wida7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Wīdā, Widā

• Spanish given name328 records spelled Wida5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Chile, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Wïdã, Widã

• French given name106 records spelled Wida4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Wïďa, Wîdã, Widä

• Pashto given name70 records spelled Wida2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Afghanistan

  Also written Wīdā

33 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●

Wida is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In ang, inflection of wīd:

  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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 14 years between 2007–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wida?

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

In which country does Wida have the most bearers?

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

Where is Wida most common?

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

How common is Wida compared with other names?

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

Is Wida a male or female name?

Wida 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.