What do you think of the name Aidah for a girl? Pronounced ay-duh.

[Anonymous]

stupid. it's pronounced "stu-pid".

[Anonymous]

Ada is a nice name. Aidah is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Mom of an Adah here. Aidah looks like aIEdah. I have a hard enough time getting my Spanish friends to call her Adah-most call her Aida!

[Anonymous]

Looks too similar to the Aidan craze. Prefer Ada. And prefer Ava over Ada.

[Anonymous]

Adah is a biblical name- she's the second woman mentioned in the Bible (after Eve.)

[Anonymous]

Aida is an Arabic name pronounced roughly ah-ee-da, like the opera. "Roughly" because the first letter is ain, a letter found in Arabic and Hebrew, but not English. I love the name, and I considered it.

Have none of you watched The Food Network? Aida Mollenkamp? It's a name that works well across cultures, unless the only culture you like is vanilla. If that's the case, you can never go wrong with Elizabeth.

Not that I think it's wrong to dislike the name, but the views on this board can be narrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aida is an Arabic name pronounced roughly ah-ee-da, like the opera. "Roughly" because the first letter is ain, a letter found in Arabic and Hebrew, but not English. I love the name, and I considered it.

Have none of you watched The Food Network? Aida Mollenkamp? It's a name that works well across cultures, unless the only culture you like is vanilla. If that's the case, you can never go wrong with Elizabeth.

Not that I think it's wrong to dislike the name, but the views on this board can be narrow.

People are taking issue with the spelling, not the name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wanted something a little more elegant, but DH loved the name Ada.
Just a different take on spelling I suppose.

Leave the 'h' off - Aida

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aida is an Arabic name pronounced roughly ah-ee-da, like the opera. "Roughly" because the first letter is ain, a letter found in Arabic and Hebrew, but not English. I love the name, and I considered it.

Have none of you watched The Food Network? Aida Mollenkamp? It's a name that works well across cultures, unless the only culture you like is vanilla. If that's the case, you can never go wrong with Elizabeth.

Not that I think it's wrong to dislike the name, but the views on this board can be narrow.

People are taking issue with the spelling, not the name.

This. Both Aida and Ada are fine, but kre*tiv spellings are the worst.

[Anonymous]

If you absolute must spell it differently, what about Ayda or Aydah? If I saw Aida or Aidah, I would pronounce it like the opera. Also agree that people will regularly confuse the h with the n and assume it is a boy named Aidan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wanted something a little more elegant, but DH loved the name Ada.
Just a different take on spelling I suppose.

Leave the 'h' off - Aida

Aida and Ada/Adah are two different names.

[Anonymous]

I'm a calligrapher. I can easily make the distinction between the "h" and the "n" when reading and transcribing this name, but get ready for Aidah to be misspelled Aidan and called Aidan. A lot.

[Anonymous]

My name is actually Ada ,one thing though is it actually gets said “Ava” more than “Ah-duh”

[Anonymous]

Aidah is like spelling Katie as Kaytee. Low class.

[Anonymous]

Arabs will think the child is Arab. Aidan is a very old fashioned Arabic name.