Vida
Just 25 women in Poland carry this name, so most Poles will never meet one. Slavic at root, it means simply "life".
Vida Pronunciation
What Vida means
Where Vida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vida grows from a Slavic root, and its meaning is plain: life. In Polish that is życie, the whole of a person's days held in two syllables.
The name lives well beyond Poland. In Slovenia and Croatia, Vida has long been an ordinary given name, worn by grandmothers and newborns alike. That reach is one sign of how old the Slavic stock behind it runs.
Some readers will hear the Latin vita in it. The resemblance is real, though the name we are following here stands on Slavic ground, and its sense of life belongs to that soil.
Picture a school register in September. The teacher reads down the column and reaches Vida, four letters, no diminutive softening it, no longer form to fall back on. The name arrives complete. It means życie, life, and it says so directly.
How many people are named Vida
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Vida. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8663 among female names.
Vida as a middle name
Vida is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5327th, between Victorine (3) and Vihar (3).
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#5325 Vicki3
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#5326 Victorine3
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#5327 Vida3
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#5328 Vihar3
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#5329 Viktorija3