Wida
A Slavic name meaning "alive, full of life". Barely anyone carries it: about two dozen women in all of Poland, so most Poles have never met one, and no girl was named Wida last year.
Wida Pronunciation
Wida is pronounced VEE-dah (/ˈvida/).
What Wida means
Where Wida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wida comes from Slavic soil, and its meaning is plain enough to state in three words: alive, full of life. The name keeps company with the old Slavic root for living, the same family that survives in Polish `żywy` and `żywa`. Short names like this were common among the Slavs before the calendar of Christian saints arrived.
There is no long list of pet forms here. Wida stands on its own, two syllables, easy to call across a room. The Polish sense, `żywa, pełna życia`, tells you what the name was reaching for.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. A teacher reads down the column and lands on Wida near the top. The name is rare. It stops the eye. Whoever carries it wears a word that means alive.
How many people are named Wida
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Wida. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8671 among female names.
Wida as a middle name
Wida is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6961st, between Wiaczesława (2) and Wiebke (2).