Beda (name)
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 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.
Given name
- Beda, Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
- Beda Angehrn, prince-abbot of Saint Gall
- Bede Clifford, British colonial administrator and diplomat
- Beda Dudík, Benedictine Moravian historian
- Bede Durbidge, Australian surfer
- Bede Jarrett Dominican friar, Provincial of the English Dominicans, and founder of Blackfriars Priory, Oxford University.
- Beda Stjernschantz, Finnish symbolist painter
- Beda Weber, German writer
- Beda Tumukwatse, IT Specialist and Academician
Surname
- Bartosz Beda, Polish contemporary artist
- Leonid Beda, Soviet Army officer
- Slavko Beda, Croatian footballer
- Pedro Beda, Brazilian footballer
Pseudonym
- pen name of Fritz Löhner-Beda, short form of his given name Bedřich.