Given name & surname
Beda
“a goddess; warrior woman”
Beda is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a goddess; warrior woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a goddess; warrior woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1884. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 328
- 0 boys · 328 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 1940. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 617 as a first name in 2020; 346 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beda’s family of names
In Bavarian usage, Beda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Peter. Beda has a related form in Bede. In Polish usage, Beda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bede.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Beda has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
7 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Beda
- BedeAnglo-Saxon monk, writer and saint (672/3–735)
- Beda WeberAustrian writer (1798-1858)
- Beda ChangChinese Jesuit martyr (1905–1951)
- Beda StjernschantzFinnish painter (1867-1910)
- Beda KleeSwiss cross-country skierborn 1996
- Beda Giovanni CardinaleRoman Catholic archbishop1869–1933
- Beda MayrGerman philosopher and poet1742–1794
- Beda AllemannSwiss literary critic and essayist (1926-1991)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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