Saturday, May 23, 2020

Idas & Aidas, Isas & Aisas

More short girls' names that travel well!
As usual, English is a bit of an oddball when it comes to pronunciation, so just assume all -ida names are "ee-dah" unless long-established in English, and the -aidas & -aisas are "ah-ee-dah" / "eye-dah" and "ah-ee-sah" / "eye-sah".  ;)
[it's literally been years, but I have done a few other lists of short, similar girls' names: Eias, Elas, & Elias; Ias, Inas, & Itas; Aias, Anas & Aras; Iras & Yras, Ilas & Ylas]


  • Blida ([archaic] Swedish)
  • Brida ([anglicized] Irish, Italian)
  • Cida ([Brazilian] Portuguese)
  • Dida (Danish, Swedish, Arabic, Romanian) [multiple derivations, masculine in Arabic]
  • Fida (Arabic) [unisex]
  • Frida (Scandinavian, Spanish, English)
  • Friida (Finnish)
  • Guida (Portuguese)
  • Ida (English, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian, Dutch)
  • Iida (Finnish)
  • Lida (English, Russian, Scandinavian, Persian) [multiple derivations]
  • Lída (Czech)
  • Liida (Finnish)
  • Nida (Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Lithuanian, Scandinavian) [multiple derivations]
  • Rida (Arabic) [masculine. Also, closer to "rid-ah" than "ree-dah"]
  • Thida (Thai, Burmese) [separate derivations]
  • Tida (Scandinavian)
  • Vida (Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, English, Persian) [multiple derivations, masculine in Hungarian]
  • Yida (Mandarin) [unisex]

  • Aida (really, everywhere) [multiple derivations]
  • Daida (Spanish)
  • Fraida (Yiddish)
  • Gaida (Latvian)
  • Laida (Spanish, Basque)
  • Maida (Scandinavian, Bosnian, English) [multiple derivations, "may-dah" in English]
  • Naida (Croatian, Bosnian, English, Spanish) [multiple derivations, usually "nay-dah" in English]
  • Saida (Arabic, Scandinavian) [separate derivations]
  • Smaida (Latvian)
  • Taida (Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian, Polish, Latvian)
  • Vaida (Lithuanian, Latvian)
  • Zaida (Arabic)

  • Brisa (Spanish)
  • Chisa (Japanese)
  • Cisa (Germanic mythology) [German pronunciation of -isa names is "ee-zah" rather than "ee-sah"]
  • Dísa (Icelandic)
  • Disa (Scandinavian)
  • Gisa (German) 
  • Hisa (Japanese)
  • Iisa (Finnish)
  • İsa (Turkish) [masculine]
  • Isa (Arabic, Spanish, German, Scandinavian) [multiple derivations; masculine in Arabic]
  • Kiisa (Finnish)
  • Kisa (Danish, Japanese) [separate derivations, more common in fiction than IRL in Japanese]
  • Liisa (Finnish, Estonian)
  • Lísa (Icelandic)
  • Lisa (all over the western world)
  • Miisa (Finnish)
  • Misa (Japanese, Scandinavian) [separate derivations; unisex in Scandinavia]
  • Niisa (Finnish)
  • Nisa (Turkish, Thai, Scandinavian) [separate derivations]
  • Risa (Japanese, English, Scandinavian) [multiple derivations]
  • Sisa (Quechua)
  • Tisa (English, Serbian, Nepalese [Newar?]) [separate derivations]
  • Viisa (Finnish)
  • Vísa (Icelandic)
  • Visa (Scandinavian) [unisex]
  • Yisa (Nigerian [Edo?]) [masculine]
  • Zisa (Germanic mythology, Yiddish) [separate derivations]

  • Aisa (Scandinavian, Japanese, Greek mythology) [separate derivations]
  • Caisa (Scandinavian)
  • Faisa (Arabic, Swahili)
  • Kaisa (Scandinavian, Estonian)
  • Maisa (Scandinavian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish) [multiple derivations]
  • Raisa (Arabic, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian) [multiple derivations]
  • Taísa ([Brazilian] Portuguese)
  • Taisa (Russian, Belarusian)
  • Thaísa ([Brazilian] Portuguese, Spanish)

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