Aida
Rare in Poland: only around 560 women carry it, and most people here have never met one. It's climbing though, given to more baby girls lately than in years past. Hebrew at root, read as "visitor" or "returning".
Aida Pronunciation
Aida is pronounced ah-EE-dah (/aˈida/).
What Aida means
Where Aida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aida traces back to a Hebrew root, though the name spread most widely through Arabic, where it settled into the form ʿĀʾida. In that Arabic reading it means visitor, or the one who returns. The Hebrew side pulls elsewhere, toward the idea of a reward, a benefit given back.
Most people meet the name through Verdi. His opera Aida premiered in Cairo in 1871, and its Ethiopian princess gave the name a public life across European stages.
In Poland it stands mostly on its own. No diminutives follow it. There is no cross-gender pair, no shortened pet form for a school register to record. What holds under both readings is the double sense: the guest who arrives, and the reward that comes back with her.
How many people are named Aida
1 in 40185 women in Poland is named Aida. 561 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1258 among female names.
Aida's popularity over time
8 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #756 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2010.
Where Aida is most popular
Aida is most popular in Lower Silesian, 267% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+266%) and Lesser Poland (+27%).
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+267%
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Masovian9 girls born+266%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+27%
Aida as a middle name
Aida is a first name for 561 women in Poland and a middle name for another 154, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 533rd, between Samantha (155) and Simone (153).
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#531 Anida155
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#532 Samantha155
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#533 Aida154
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#534 Simone153
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#535 Therese153