Anida
A variant of Anna, carrying the same sense of "grace". Only about 400 women in Poland go by it, so most Poles have never met one.
Anida Pronunciation
Anida is pronounced ah-NYEE-dah (/aˈɲida/).
What Anida means
Where Anida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anida is a variant of Anna, and it keeps the same short meaning: grace. Anna comes from the Hebrew Hannah, a word for favor or grace, so Anida holds that sense at one remove. The link is real even where the spelling wanders.
Its origin is classed simply as other, an honest way of saying the exact roots resist one tidy label. The label does not erase the connection to Anna; it only marks where the paper trail runs thin. What can be said is that Anida belongs to Anna's family and shares its meaning without sharing every letter.
Picture a Polish school register, the teacher reading down the column. Anida sits a line or two from Anna, near neighbors who share a meaning.
The meaning stays plain. Grace, from Anna, from Hannah.
How many people are named Anida
1 in 54851 women in Poland is named Anida. 411 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1464 among female names.
Anida as a middle name
Anida is a first name for 411 women in Poland and a middle name for another 155, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 531st, between Ingeborga (156) and Samantha (155).
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#529 Eve156
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#530 Ingeborga156
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#531 Anida155
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#532 Samantha155
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#533 Aida154