Ide
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EE-deh
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- Style
- Big in Northern Ireland
Ide is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Ide mean?
Irish: probably Irish Ide (Ita); also a Danish and Dutch form of Ida
Saint Ide, or Ita, of Killeedy was a 6th-century Irish abbess, called the foster-mother of the saints of Ireland.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Ide a girl's or a boy's name?
Ide is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ide in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 19% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Ide, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 7 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 334th in Northern Ireland.
Ide in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
Names like Ide
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tiaraoluwa, Ireoluwa, Tiwatope, Iremide, Oluwatamilore, Imisioluwa, Inioluwa, Kamsiyochukwu, Chisimdi, Araoluwa, Ifeoluwa, Oluwadarasimi
More Irish names
Oscar, Rowan, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ide: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ide, updated 20 October 2026.