Dalida
Fewer than 90 women in Poland carry Dalida, so most people here have never met one. It comes from Hebrew, a form of Delilah, with the sense of "delicate".
Dalida Pronunciation
Dalida is pronounced dah-LEE-dah (/daˈlida/).
What Dalida means
Where Dalida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Dalida grows from Hebrew, sharing its root with Delilah, the woman of the Book of Judges. That root, d-l-l, points toward something slender and low, and it gave the sense later translated as "delicate" or "weak." The Polish gloss keeps the softer edge: delikatna, subtelna.
Delilah's reputation in scripture is heavy, yet the sound underneath it stayed light. Dalida drifted free of that story and went on alone.
The best-known bearer makes the case. The French singer Dalida was born Iolanda Gigliotti in Cairo in 1933, and her stage name outlasted the one on her papers. She became one of the biggest recording stars in France.
For a Polish child, Dalida arrives without a name-day of its own, with no fixed slot in the imieniny calendar. It reads as foreign and clear on a class register. The meaning sits close to the surface. Delicate. The root that once described something low now describes something fine.
How many people are named Dalida
1 in 253301 women in Poland is named Dalida. 89 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3718 among female names.
Dalida's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Dalida as a middle name
Dalida is a first name for 89 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1608th, between Dakota (20) and Danai (20).
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#1606 Colleen20
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#1607 Dakota20
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#1608 Dalida20
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#1609 Danai20
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#1610 Eliane20