Vida
Meaning of Vida
Vida springs from the Latin word “vita,” meaning “life,” and in Spanish the same little four-letter spark whispers ¡qué viva!, let life flourish. She has wandered through Portuguese lullabies, Persian poetry, and even some Slavic stories, but her heart beats loudest in the Latin world, where every fiesta begins with a toast “a la vida.” Parents hear in her a promise of bright mornings and dancing feet—short, sweet, impossible to forget. The charts show she’s climbing yet still rare, a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. Vida wears well on poets and athletes alike, and her simple V-sound makes saying “I love Vida” feel like taking a happy breath. Small name, big heartbeat.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as VEE-duh (/ˈviːdə/)
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Notable People Named Vida
| Vida Blue was a star left-handed pitcher who won the 1971 Cy Young and MVP awards and helped the Oakland Athletics win three straight World Series titles. |
| Vida Goldstein was an Australian suffragist who became one of the first women to run for federal parliament in 1903. |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - Julia Scudder was an American educator, writer, and social activist who championed the poor through her faith-driven work. |
| Vida Jeraj was a Slovene poet and teacher known for her often tragic verse and children's poems, some set to music by her violinist husband. |
| Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American model and actress who rose to fame in FHM magazine in 2002 and has since graced many men's magazines. |
| Vida Ravenscroft Sutton was an American playwright and voice teacher who also worked in radio. |
| Vida Samadzai is an Afghan-American actress and model who, as Miss Afghanistan 2003, became the first Afghan woman in an international beauty pageant since 1974 and later appeared on the reality show Bigg Boss. |
| Vida Mary Stout was a New Zealand freshwater scientist who became the country's first female Dean of Science at a university. |
| Vida Movahed is an Iranian women's rights activist who sparked the Girls of Enghelab movement in 2017 by removing her white headscarf on a Tehran street to protest the mandatory hijab. |
| Vida Milholland was an American suffragist and the sister of National Woman's Party leader Inez Milholland. |
| Vida Isabella Steinert was a New Zealand painter born in Hamilton who also went by Vida Vickers and Vida Steinhart. |
| Vida Ognjenović is a Serbian playwright and theater director who also became a respected writer, drama professor and diplomat. |
| Vida Anim is a Ghanaian sprinter who helped set her country's national 4x100 metres relay record at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. |
| Vida Bruce is a former sprinter from Ghana. |
| Vida Halimian Avval is an Iranian compound archer who once climbed as high as seventh in the women's world rankings. |
