Aida (name)

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name = Aida


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Aida (pronounced [IPA|'ɑ‿ɪɖɐ] ) is female given name. Variants of name are: Ada, Aeeda, Aide, Aidee, Ade, Ayeeda, Ieeda and Iyeeda. [ [http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Aida Baby Name Aida - Origin and Meaning of Aida ] ]

Name day is on August 31 in memory of Saint Aidano (in Italy?) [ [http://italian.about.com/library/name/blname_aida.htm Italian Baby Names: Aida ] ] and on July 28 (and on January 2 too?) in Poland. [Polish wikipedia. Aida February 2nd 2007]

There are 34,496 people named Aida in The United States. [http://howmanyofme.com/search/ February 2 2007]

Origin and meaning

The name is derived from the Arabic name "Aida" "عايدة" or "عائدة" in formal Arabic. The name was used by Auguste Mariette for his sketch of the plot which Giuseppe Verdi later used for his opera of the same title, "Aida". [ [http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/SOLOMON.html Jon SOLOMON The Rosetta Stone, Ptolemaic Aetos, and Aida ] ] It is probably derived from an alternation of the Egyptian name Iiti. In the opera, Aida is the name of an Ethiopian princess.

Unrelated to this origin, "Aida" is also sometimes traced to African languages; in Igbo "Ada" means "first daughter", while in Yoruba "ade" means "royal one".

Note

Aida (間) is also a Japanese name.

Notable people named Aida

* Aída Álvarez (born 1950), Puerto Rican politician and journalist
* Aida Turturro (born 1962), American actress
* Aida Yespica (born 1982), Venezuelan beauty queen
* Aida Mollenkamp (born c. 1978 or 1979), American Chef and Food Network personality
* Aida El-Ayoubi [http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A] (born 1961), Famous Egyptian Singer

References

External links

* http://www.babynames.com/name/aida