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 (the purported name of one of the Saxon founders of Portsmouth in AD 501 according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) 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), Anglo-Saxon monk and historian
• Beda Angehrn (born Johann Konrad, 1725-1796), prince-abbot of Saint Gall.
• Beda Aschenbrenner (born Franz Josef, 1756-1817) professor for church law at Ingolstadt and last abbot of Oberalteich abbey.
• Beda Weber (1798–1859), German writer
• Beda Dudík (1815–1890), Benedictine Moravian historian
• Beda Adlhoch (born Franz Xaver, 1854-1910) Benedictine monk and professor of philosophy in Rome.

Surname

• 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.