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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by the opera.
Proper noun
Aida
- A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23:Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it.
Translations
Asturian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aida f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Adele or Spanish Adelaida
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Pronunciation
Noun
Aida
- a female given name
Finnish
Etymology
From Italian Aida.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aida
- a female given name
Declension
Statistics
- Aida is the 427th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 920 female individuals (and as a middle name to 417 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Italian
Etymology
Coined name of an imaginary Ethiopian princess in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida (1871).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aida f
- a female given name
- 1871 Giuseppe Verdi - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Celeste Aida (an aria in the opera Aida):
Celeste Aida, / forma divina, / mistico serto / di luce e fior.- Heavenly Aida, / divine form, / mystical garland / of light and flowers.
References
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Aida f (Cyrillic spelling Аида)
- (Bosnia) a female given name
Declension
Further reading
- “Aida”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024