Beda
Just eleven women in Poland carry it, and no newborn got it last year. The name comes from a Germanic word for prayer.
Beda Pronunciation
Beda is pronounced BE-dah (/ˈbɛda/).
What Beda means
Where Beda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Beda comes from the Germanic word for prayer. The same root survives in German "beten," to pray, and "Gebet," a prayer said aloud. In Old English it took the form Bǣda, and Latin scribes wrote it Beda.
The most famous bearer settled the name in the record books. Beda Venerabilis, the Venerable Bede, was a monk at Jarrow in northern England who died in 735. He wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the first real history of the English. His name, fittingly, means prayer.
For a Polish reader, Beda is rare. On a class register it would stand out. The short meaning stays close to the surface: modlitwa, prayer, the act named directly rather than dressed in metaphor.
When Beda celebrates name day
Beda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 25 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Beda
1 in 2049439 women in Poland is named Beda. 11 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14844 among female names.
Beda as a middle name
Beda is a first name for 11 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 46/54 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2054th, between Banu (13) and Begum (13).
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#2052 Bahar13
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#2053 Banu13
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#2054 Beda13
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#2055 Begum13
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#2056 Begüm13