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 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
pen name of
Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883–1942), short form of his given name Bedřich.
References
^J. Insley, "Portesmutha" in: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde vol. 23, Walter de Gruyter (2003), 291.
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