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
