Quick answer
Ida is a girl name meaning "work, labour".
Pronunciation: English /ˈaɪ.də/; German /ˈiː.da/; Norwegian /ˈiː.dɑ/; Dutch /ˈi.daː/; Italian /ˈi.da/; French /i.da/; Hungarian /ˈi.dɒ/.
Meaning and history
This name is derived from the Germanic element id possibly meaning "work, labour" (Proto-Germanic * idiz ). 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 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.
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Usage: english, german, swedish, norwegian, danish, dutch, italian, french, polish, finnish, hungarian, slovak, slovene, germanic