First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Indian (northern states): Hindu name from Sanskrit vaidya ‘scholar’, ‘physician’ (from Sanskrit vid- ‘to know’). The surname is found among several communities. It is the name of a clan of the Konkanasth Brahmans.