Hi! My name is Ida and I was named after my grandmother and Aunt and Ida Is it. If it comes from anything else I don't know. Maybe her names was something that ended in "ita" or something. Sometimes people just get names and they keep them. My mother in law's names was Bridget Therese and she was called. Agnes. She worked in a rectory and the pastor had a Bridget working there already and he said you name will be Agnes. She went by this for the rest of her life and she also has it on her tomb stone. No one would have every figured that one out. But it is written in our family tree so others will know how it came about. Ida McDevitt(Duggan)