Ida

Ida Yessica Nesse (b. 1992) is a Norwegian Paralympic athlete who competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.

Ida Corr is a Danish-Gambian singer who is perhaps best known for her song with Fedde le Grand "Let Me Think About It".

Ida Schuster (1918-2020) was a Scottish theatre, radio and television actress, theatre director and a leading figure in Glasgow's 20th-century Jewish theatre community.

Hurricane Ida (Cat 4) is the second hurricane to ever have this name. It is scheduled to make landfall at 1pm edt on the day that I'm writing this (Fun Fact: Today is the 19th anniversary of the day when Hurricane Katrina made landfall).

Ida Saxton McKinley, a bearer with the name.

Ida is the main character in the video game, Monument Valley.

Ida Josefin Peg Parnevik, better known as Peg Parnevik, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and television personality, known for starring in the Swedish reality show Parneviks. Parnevik was born in Stockholm to professional golfer Jesper Parnevik and his wife Mia. She has three younger siblings; Penny, Philippa, and Phoenix and was raised in Jupiter, Florida in the United States. Her paternal grandfather is Swedish impersonator Bosse Parnevik. She attended The Pine School in Hobe Sound. She spent her freshman year of college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She then briefly enrolled at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Ida is the main character in the game Monument Valley.

Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American teacher, author and journalist.

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a suffragette, anti-lynch campaigner, and worked for international social justice.

"Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" (1903), is a song written by Eddie Leonard and composed by Eddie Munson. (Ida pronounced the English way, of course)

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My Grandmother is Ida. When she was a kid, the boys would jokingly sing this song to her.

Ida Straus was a first-class passenger on the RMS Titanic. She traveled with her husband Isidor, who was a businessman, and the two loved each other very much. When the Titanic started sinking, Ida refused to board the lifeboats and stayed with her husband on the ship. The couple died together.

"Little Ida's Flowers" is a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen who also wrote "The Little Mermaid" and "Thumbleina."

I believe there is also a comet or meteor bearing the same name.

There is an asteroid, in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, called Ida. I don't know why it was named Ida, but I believe it is one of the largest asteroids known. In pictures Ida looks like a huge potato :) This is funny to me, since potatoes are commonly grown in Idaho, a name which contains the name Ida. So now, whenever I hear the name Ida, I think of potatoes (and asteroids). I think it is a kind of cute name though.

Ida is a Hindu goddess of the earth, abundant food, and nourishment. She is also the granter of any blessings evoked through her.

From Edward Gorey's sick and twisted poem, The Gashlycrumb Tinies: "I is for Ida who drowned in a lake".

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Ida is also the name of one of the girls from Katy Towell's Childrin R Skary website.

Ida Maria is a Norwegian rock singer.

Ida is a character in the books/movies about Emil of the Maple Hills (Swedish: Emil I Lönneberga) written by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

Famous bearers:
Indian-Czech singer Ida Bittová-Kelarová
Czech photographer Ida Saudková
Polish actress Ida Kaminska
Slovak actress Ida Rapaičová
Czech actress Ida Sovová

The name was also borne by Ida B. Wells, an advocate of civil rights and women's rights who gained particular renown for her staunch opposition to lynching.

Ida Lupino was a movie star in the 20's and 30's.

Ida is the name of a novel by Gertrude Stein, and a character in it.

Ida B was the main character in the book, Ida B.

Ida is the name of the 14-year-old girl and main character in Avi's award-winning children's book The Secret School. The book is an inspiring story of a headstrong girl determined to control her own destiny.

Ida Brown Wright was a good friend of the authoress Laura Ingalls Wilder. The adopted daughter of a reverend and his wife, Laura and Ida were friends when they lived in De Smet, South Dakota. Ida appears as a character in the books The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years.