Jacob isn't a bad name, though it's pretty overused now.
Alida, on the other hand, is lovely. I would pronounce it ə-LEE-də. The two times I've seen it in real life, though, the women spelled their names as Aleida (same pronunciation). To me that looks like ə-LIE-də, but I guess it doesn't read that way to a lot of people.
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