Ida | Imamother

Barbara

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 9:41 pm

amother wrote:

How would you pronounce it? Is it a Jewish name?

EYE-da

Didn't every Jew have a great-great aunt Ida? I did.

amother

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 9:44 pm

Barbara wrote:

amother wrote:

How would you pronounce it? Is it a Jewish name?

EYE-da

Didn't every Jew have a great-great aunt Ida? I did.

Thank you Barbara.

So what you're saying is it's very old-fashioned?

Barbara

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 10:13 pm

amother wrote:

Barbara wrote:

amother wrote:

How would you pronounce it? Is it a Jewish name?

EYE-da

Didn't every Jew have a great-great aunt Ida? I did.

Thank you Barbara.

So what you're saying is it's very old-fashioned?

Two-thirds of the kids running around the playground today have names that, in my youth, belonged only to elderly Jewish men chomping on cigars, or their wives with helmet hair, wearing polyester double knit pants suits. So old-fashioned is a synonym for young and trendy.

If you like the name, go for it.

zaq

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 11:06 pm

Barbara wrote:

Didn't every Jew have a great-great aunt Ida? I did.

Who was sister to the twin Tantes Rose and Frieda, and to Uncles Harry, Morris and Max.

Think about it. Some day everyone will have a great-great Aunt Tiffany-Brittany. Or Morgan, Madison, Taylor, Tyler or Nixon. OK, maybe not Nixon.

Barbara

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 11:10 pm

zaq wrote:

Barbara wrote:

Didn't every Jew have a great-great aunt Ida? I did.

We missed the Freida, but we did have a Hattie. Does that count?

Bella:D

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 11:25 pm

My 16 year old sister's name is Ida, she is named after my mom's grandmother.
We pronounce is EE-da because thats how they pronounce it in Russian (We're from Russia)

I think if you like it or if it has some meaning in your family, go for it!

amother

Mon, Oct 24 2011, 11:36 pm

Bella:D wrote:

My 16 year old sister's name is Ida, she is named after my mom's grandmother.
We pronounce is EE-da because thats how they pronounce it in Russian (We're from Russia)

THAT is why I was asking! Smile

We are also Russian.

So to clarify -- she also pronounces it Ee-da in school? Does she have to correct people's pronunciations all the time?

bigsis144

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 12:44 am

I know an Ida (pronounced EYE-da) who's around 10 or 11 years old.

I always thought it was a variation on the name Aidel/Eidel.

Ruchel

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 4:03 am

Aida is definitely from the same root as Eidel.

Ida (eeda) is from Yehudis.

farmom

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 5:22 am

Just seeing the name Ida brought back good memories.

My grandmother was Ida, and when she went to school, her sister brought her, and was so embarrassed to have a sister named Ida, (This was in the 1920s) she told the school office that her name was Claire. She was never called Ida after that. She even penciled in on her birth certificate "Claire". Her passport and all her legal documents were Claire.

Culturedpearls

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 5:31 am

It's a Russian name that was used exclusively by Jews in Russia .
Prounced Ee-da. I have several elderly relatives with that name.
It's as Jewish as Aidel, Freidel, Yenta, Musia ...

amother

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 5:45 am

Culturedpearls wrote:

It's a Russian name that was used exclusively by Jews in Russia .
Prounced Ee-da. I have several elderly relatives with that name.
It's as Jewish as Aidel, Freidel, Yenta, Musia ...

Mmm, yes, I know that. My question is, how would it be pronounced in America?

Ruchel

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 5:46 am

You may have to correct people a lot, like for many Jewish or foreign names.

spring13

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 1:25 pm

for what this is worth, it's also a non-Jewish name (pronounced in English as EYE-dah). Most people you meet will think of it that way, and won't think of it as being a Jewish name.

I wonder if spelling it Eda would make it more likely for people to pronounce it as EE-dah?

amother

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 1:32 pm

Raizle wrote:

ida pronounced as eeda is Yehudis

Exactly. Our family is full of them (Yehudis's), for a decease relative.
Also, a respectable Posek told DH that Ida, prounonced Eeda, means exactly Yehudis.
As a matter of fact the deceased , Ida, had Yehudis on her Matzeiva.

amother

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 1:39 pm

I don't know what it has to do with Russian, but I believe that it is EE-da because it is pronounced this way in Yiddish. This name has Yiddish origin, not Russian! It was used by many Jews in Russia though.

shoemaker

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 1:46 pm

maybe I would say idy

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Barbara

Tue, Oct 25 2011, 1:46 pm

http://www.babynameshub.com/ba......html

The name is apparently very common in Norway and Scandanavia. Elsewhere, not so much. In the US, its popularlity peaked in the 1920s. But in the US, it is definitely pronounced EYE-da.