Last name origins & meanings:
- English and German: from Ida, which is found as both a
male and female personal name in English but only as a female name in
German. This is of continental Germanic origin and was popular among
the Normans, who brought it to England. Its etymology is disputed: it
is thought by some to be of the same origin as hild- ‘battle’,
‘strife’; by others to be of the same origin as Old High German
idis ‘(wise) woman’, or from Old Norse idh ‘work’,
‘activity’.
- Japanese: ‘rice paddy by the well’; habitational
name from Ida-mura in Musashi (now Tōkyō and Saitama
prefectures). Variously written and found mostly in eastern Japan and
the Ryūkyū Islands.
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