About the name Ouida
Ouida belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Ouida first appears in Social Security records in 1887. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #535 in 1933, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 4,886 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.