Ida, the name of my ancestresses

Ida, when I was born earlier, in the time children were named after their grandparents, my name would have been Ida, after my mother's mother, who had died five years before my birth. She died very young, at the age of 48, my age now. In retrospective I would have liked having her name as my middle name.

Ida is quite a regular name in the Netherlands, although not a name you see on a daily basis. The year the most Ida's were born is 1946: 287 Ida's. This was a top year, a lot of children were born shortly after WWII. In the year my grandmother was born, 1918, there were 185 Ida's born. To illustrate the difference: In 1946 there were 9544 Johanna's born and in 1918 6485. A name was given from generation to generation and I researched where Ida came from in my family.

Ida de Jong, my grandmother, was born in 1918. She was the oldest child of Gerard de Jong and Johanna Spijker and was named after her grandmother from her father's side, Ida Maalderink. In my ancestry this is the only time Ida was passed through over the paternal line, after this it goes over the maternal line.

Ida Maalderink was born in 1858. She was the daughter of Bernardus Maalderink and Marretje Snel. Marretje, on her turn, was born in 1824. Her parents were Jan Snel and Ida van Stam. The name of this Ida was also spelled as Yda. Yda was born in 1797. Before 1812 names were often spelled in different ways, so you have to be alert! Yda van Stam was the daughter of Dirk van Stam and Grietje de Haas (1767). Grietje's mother I first found in the archives as Eijtje. This is in Dutch the same word as egg, little egg. Pour child, to be called a small egg! Eijtje Hoogerhout was married to Sijmen de Haas. A name like Hoogerhout you can also spell as Hogerhout, Hoogerhoud and Hogerhoud, so you have to look up all these varieties. With one of these varieties her first name was Eida. Eida... Eida! But of course, Ida became Yda and now was Eida! (Ei is pronounced in the same way as Y) So it is the same name! Eijtje was just another Ida. I don't know when Eijtje was born, but is should have been around 1740.