Iida

  • [ EE:-dah ]
  • Finnish
Finnish form of IDA.

IDA   female   English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Ancient Germanic
Derived from the Germanic element id meaning "work, labour". The Normans brought this name to England, though it eventually died out there in the Middle Ages. It was strongly revived in the 19th century, in part due to the heroine in Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem 'The Princess' (1847), which was later adapted into the play 'Princess Ida' (1884) by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Though the etymology is unrelated, this is the name of a mountain on the island of Crete where, according to Greek myth, the god Zeus was born.
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Ida
CROATIAN: Ida
DANISH: Ida
DUTCH: Ida
ENGLISH: Ida, Idella, Idelle
GERMAN: Ida
HUNGARIAN: Ida
ITALIAN: Ida
NORWEGIAN: Ida
PORTUGUESE: Ida
SLOVENE: Ida
SPANISH: Ida
SWEDISH: Ida