Nida
Feminine · “a call”
Nida is Arabic for a call — the noun for summoning someone by voice. The call to prayer that goes out from a minaret five times a day is a nida, and the man who makes it is a caller. The name is that word, and it is one of the plainest in the language.
How old is the name Nida?
Nida first appears in US birth records in 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Nida alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 1,100 people named Nida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nida most popular?
Nida peaked in 1905, reaching #1538 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 10,394 places below that high. See the whole 1905 chart.
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Where it comes from
From nida to Nida
The story of Nida
The call to prayer is one of the few religious practices carried entirely by the human voice, and the vocabulary around it is precise: the adhan is the call itself, the muezzin is the one who makes it, and nida is the general word for calling out that stands behind both. Names built on plain nouns of this kind are common in Arabic and they wear well because the word stays current. Elsewhere on the map the same four letters name a village on the Curonian Spit, a hundred-kilometre sandbar between Lithuania and the Baltic where the dunes migrate and have buried settlements more than once. Thomas Mann built a summer house there in 1930; it is still standing.
Meaning
a call, a summons
Arabic nida, a call or proclamation, from a verb meaning to call out. It is an ordinary noun and is given as a name across the Arabic-speaking world and in Pakistan and Turkey. A separate Lithuanian place of the same name is unrelated.
How the name formed
- nida
- Nida
Related forms: Nida · Nida · Nida
Pronouncing Nida
NEE-dah
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long ee. NY-duh, with a long i, is the English reading of the letters and is not how the name is said anywhere it is native.
Nicknames for Nida
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1905
- Most girls named
- 199538 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1538reached in 1905
- Change vs 2023
- −53.3%7 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nida in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nida in Arabic — same name
- Nida in Urdu — transliteration
- Nida in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Nidas among us
people named Nida are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Nida
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Nida sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Nida beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nida in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Arabic meaning that is an ordinary current word.
- Four letters and two syllables, easy in English, Arabic and Turkish alike.
- It is in genuine current use across several countries rather than being a revival.
- English readers may give the i its long English value, which changes the name.
- Nidaa and Neda are both used in transliteration and Neda is a separate Persian name.
- It is close enough to Nadia and Nita to be misheard as either.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nidas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Nida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nida in 2025?
- Nida ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nida?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Nida — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nida with classmates?
- Nida will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Nida
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