Beda

Where Beda comes from

Beda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1798
    Beda Weber born
    Austrian writer
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #851 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1890
    Peak, #825
    11 babies named Beda — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,700.
  5. 1905
    Beda Chang born
    Chinese Jesuit martyr
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Beda Weber · Austrian writer, 1798–1858
  • Beda Chang · Chinese Jesuit martyr, 1905–1951
  • Beda Stjernschantz · Finnish painter, 1867–1910
  • Beda Mayr · German philosopher and poet, 1742–1794
  • Beda Klee · Swiss cross-country skier, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.