Yida
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- YEE-dah
- Origin
- Chinese
- US rank, 2025
- #4,538 for boys
Yida is a boys' name of Chinese origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,538th for boys in the US (22 babies).
What does Yida mean?
Chinese: Chinese given name
A Chinese given name whose meaning depends on the characters chosen.
Is Yida a girl's or a boy's name?
Yida is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yida in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,538among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 78,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 21% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 22 boys in the US were named Yida, making it the 4,538th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the boys named Yida in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yida in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,538 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,697 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,776 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,714 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,758 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
Names like Yida
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Hamza Khaza Zahir Zamir Yahya Zayd Yazan Mustafa Zayan Jamir Yahir
More Chinese names
Lian Jia Mei Tai Tian Jun Mulan Yi Tao San Jian Han Mian Bao Xia Lin
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yida: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yida, updated 20 October 2026.