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Oh Ada Lovelace, so very... steampunk. She's such a great namesake and it's such a great name, so neat and palindromic and thoroughly feminine without being at all frilly. I keep forgetting about it, but I do love it so.
Ida is almost as good, it's got a kind of goddessy elegance and yet there's that song - 'sweet as apple cider' which makes me imagine it on a farmgirl, too. I prefer the eye-da pronunciation, it's less modern.

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Ada Augusta
Ada Alethea
Ada Beatrice
Ada Constance
Ada Winifred
Ada Aloisia
Ada Marion
Ada Evelina
Ada Frances
Ada Roswitha
Ada Lucille / Lucilla
Ada Colette

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Ida Blanche
Ida Cornelia
Ida Cosima
Ida Clementine
Ida Eudora
Ida Rose
Ida Marguerite
Ida Clover
Ida Miriam

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edited to add: Ida Marie, because it is just so sweet

This message was edited 4/7/2010, 3:26 PM

Both are so cute! But I think I prefer Ada.

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Ada Bethany
Ada Catharine
Ada Charlotte
Ada Clementine
Ada Corinne
Ada Felicity
Ada Garnet
Ada Gwyneth
Ada Harriet (Actually, come to think of it, I had a teacher in high school who had twins named Ada and Harriet. They'd probably be about 13 now.)
Ada Helen
Ada Jasmine
Ada Jeannette
Ada Jillian
Ada Lucy
Ada Marigold
Ada Maxine
Ada Noelle
Ada Pauline
Ada Shirley
Ada Sophie
Ada Spring
Ada Temperance
Ada Valentine

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Most of those would probably work for Ida too. But Ida has a little more bite to it. Not quite as sweet as Ada. Some others for Ida:

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Ida Cassidy
Ida Joan
Ida Maris
Ida Roxanne
Ida Tamsin
Ida Vivian
Ida Winifred

How do you pronounce Ida?
I prefer Ida with an ee, or Ada with an ah.

Ada.

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Ida is so boring.

Ada, for sure.

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I lived in Ada, Oklahoma for two years and have loved the name ever since.

Ida

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Pronounce ee-dah is better than ie-dah.

I love Ada, but dislike Ida.

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Ada Beatrice, Ada Beatrix
Ada Catrin, Ada Cecily, Ada Celestine, Ada Clothilde, Ada Colette
Ada Frances
Ada Hermione
Ada Jessamine, Ada Josephine
Ada Laurel, Ada Lavender, Ada Lenore, Ada Lilias, Ada Lilinoe, Ada Lillian, Ada Lisbet, Ada Lucille
Ada Mariam, Ada Maribel, Ada Marigold, Ada Maxine
Ada Rhianwen, Ada Rosalie, Ada Rosemary
Ada Sandrine
Ada Tamsin, Ada Tatienne
Ada Violet, Ada Virginie, Ada Viviane, Ada Vivienne
Ada Wilhelmine, Ada Winifred, Ada Winter
Ada Xanthe

Not fond of Ida, but preder Ada by a mile. Ida seems really dreary.
Ada Celeste
Ada Laurel
Ada Marcelle
Ada Rosina

Ada!

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I like both, but Ada is so lovely. It reminds me of Ada Lovelace (Is there a more perfect name?) and Ada from Cold Mountain.

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Ada Louise
Ada Beatrix
Ada Bellamy
Ada Tamsin
Ada Fanchette
Ada Cecily
Ida Georgina
Ida Rosmarie
Ida Delphine
Ida Rosalie

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HTH

I do love both, but I adore the combo Ada Frances, so I am going to say Ada.

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Ida sort of reminds me of Ida Ho. "No, HE da ho."

Ida - It seems refreshing to me too. Ada is nice but Ida is a beauty of a name

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I'm not sure for combos but maybe something classic but more modern than the ones you suggest and a little longer

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I'd like something like Ida Natalie or Ida Rebecca

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Ada. I really like Ada. Ida is nice on paper, but it just sounds too much like starting to say I'd have. Ida noticed it every time I called her name.

Ada but I prefer the spelling Adah.

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Ada Amelia
Ada Lena
Ada Winifred
Ada Amairane
Ada Hilda
Ada Janna
Ada Mila

I prefer Ada, one of my great-grandmothers was named Ada Matilda Anne

Ida

Ida is a way too popular and childish name. It's probably not as common in the US, but hereit's one of the most boring names I know.

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I like Ada a lot. But since I like Adelaide, Adeline etc also I would use Ada as a nickname.

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Ada Isabelle
Ada Noelle
Ada Louise
Ada Sophia
Ada Esmeralda
Ada Sapphire
Ada Emmeline
Ada Lucinda
Ada Madeleine
Ada Theodora

I actually like both and oddly enough, both are family names for me. I think I like the sound of Ida just a bit more.

Both are brief and sturdy, certainly, but I can't bring myself to think of either one as pretty.

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I was surprised to realize, a few months ago, that a youngish (about 30) coworker of mine is named Ida.

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Of the two, I would pick Ada. The long A rather than the long I makes it a little softer and a little more attractive.