How rare is the name Ida?

40,120 people in the United States have the first name Ida, about 1 in 7,528. It ranks #1,045 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

IDA

#1,045

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
40,120
About
1 in 7,528
This common or more
70.7%
Who bears it

Of the 40,120 people named Ida, 53% reported their origin as White, 27.3% as Black and 13.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ida peaked in 1918, when 4,470 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
4,470
In 2025*
209 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 188,695 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ida by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #19. The largest share of babies named Ida, 43.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1918,358
1890s#3221,289
1900s#4918,939
1910s#9434,922
1920s#13535,790
1930s#21920,368
1940s#32514,350
1950s#4999,783
1960s#7195,629
1970s#1,0702,838
1980s#1,5931,687
1990s#2,5721,067
2000s#3,540917
2010s#2,7011,488
2020s#2,1551,270
Before 190122.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2743.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4518.6%
Baby boom 1946–649.8%
Generation X 1965–802.8%
Millennials 1981–961.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.8%
2013 and later1.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ida is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ida has been most common in Mississippi (3.5×), South Carolina (2.6×), and Alabama (2.4×), and least common in Alaska (0.26×).

125,206 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ida

#1,043 Frankie · 40,157#1,044 London · 40,126#1,046 Santos · 40,112#1,047 Rowan · 40,085

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ida, most common first.

#20,005 Ido · 521#23,344 Idy · 420#42,623 Ide · 168#45,015 Idia · 152

Also a last name

As a last name, Ida ranks #42,002 of 156,621, with 557 people. See Ida as a last name

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