Aida

Aida (countable and uncountable, plural Aidas)

1. Synonym of Aida cloth.

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.

Aida

1. A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
   • 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23:

     Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it.

• IPA^(key): /ˈai̯da/ [ˈai̯.ð̞a]

Aida f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Adele or Spanish Adelaida

• Hyphenation: Ai‧da

Aida

1. a female given name

From Italian Aida.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯dɑ/, [ˈɑ̝i̯dɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑidɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ai‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): Ai‧da

Aida

1. a female given name

• Aida is the 403^rd (tied with 2 other names) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,031 female individuals (and as a middle name to 480 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Coined name of an imaginary Ethiopian princess in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida (1871).

• IPA^(key): /aˈi.da/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ida
• Hyphenation: A‧ì‧da

Aida f

1. a female given name
   • 1871 Giuseppe Verdi - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Celeste Aida (an aria in the opera Aida):

     Celeste Aida, / forma divina, / mistico serto / di luce e fior.

     Heavenly Aida, / divine form, / mystical garland / of light and flowers.

Aida f (Cyrillic spelling Аида)

1. (Bosnia) a female given name

• “Aida”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026