Beda (name) explained

Beda is a given name and surname of multiple origin.

As a masculine given name, it originates as an Anglo-Saxon short name, West Saxon Bīeda, Northumbrian Bǣda, Anglian Bēda (the purported name of one of the Saxon founders of Portsmouth in AD 501 according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)^[1] cognate with German Bodo. Beda Venerabilis was a Benedictine, in whose honour the name Beda was popularly chosen as a monastic name by Benedictines, and in modern times entered wider usage as a given name among Roman Catholics in continental Europe.

Béda is an unrelated Hungarian feminine given name.

Beda is also an unrelated Russian surname (from Russian: [[:wikt:беда|беда]], "trouble, misery").

Given name

• Beda (Beda Venerabilis, the Venerable Bede) (672/3–735), Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
• Beda Angehrn (born Johann Konrad, 1725–1796), prince-abbot of Saint Gall
• Bede Clifford (1890–1969), British colonial administrator and diplomat
• Beda Dudík (1815–1890), Benedictine Moravian historian
• Bede Durbidge (born 1983), Australian surfer
• Bede Jarrett (1881–1934) Dominican friar, Provincial of the English Dominicans, and founder of Blackfriars Priory, Oxford University.
• Beda Stjernschantz (1867–1910), Finnish symbolist painter
• Beda Weber (1798–1859), German writer

Surname

• Bartosz Beda, Polish contemporary artist
• Leonid Beda (1923–1995), Soviet Army officer
• Slavko Beda (1919–1975), Croatian footballer
• Pedro Beda (born 1989), Brazilian footballer

Pseudonym

• pen name of Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883 - 1942), short form of his given name Bedřich.

Notes and References

1. J. Insley, "Portesmutha" in: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde vol. 23, Walter de Gruyter (2003), 291.