Aida

(name)

Aida
Gender	Female
Meaning	Moonlight, Helper, Distinguished, Reward
Origin	French, Egyptian, Italian, Latin, African
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Aida

Aida (pronounced ['ɑ‿ɪɖɐ]) is female given name. Variants of name are: Ada, Aeeda, Aide, Aidee, Ade, Ayeeda, Ieeda and Iyeeda.^[1]

Name day is on August 31 in memory of Saint Aidano (in Italy?)^[2] and on July 28 (and on January 2 too?) in Poland.^[3]

There are 34 496 people named Aida in The United States.^[4]

Origin and meaning

It is name of Spanish origin meaning moonlight or light of the moon.^[5]

Or it is name of French origin meaning helper.^[6]

Or it is of Egyptian origin^[7] derived probably from an alteration of the Egyptian name Iiti.^[8]

Sometimes it is mentioned as name of Italian origin.^[9]^[10]

Sometimes it is mentioned as name of Latin origin meaning distinguished or helpful.^[11]

It is mentioned as a name of African origin meaning reward. ^[12] (In Igbo "Ada" it means daughter, while in Yoruba "Ade" means royal one)

Arabic script:^[13] عائدة in Arabic meaning reward or present.^[14]

For Chinese transcription see [2].

Aida is name of an Ethiopian princess in opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi.

Aida (間) can be a Japanese name.

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