Lydia
Lydia places #92 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 187,039 American bearers across the record.
What Lydia carries
Lydia · Greek
“of Lydia”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Lydia’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lydia, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Lydia since 1880
Lydia peaked in 2014 at #84; #92 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lydia is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Lydia runs strongest in Wyoming at 0.99% in 2025, then Vermont and North Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Lydia
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Angel
#67 in 2025 · Greek
Sophie
#55 in 2025 · Greek
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Browse: names starting with L · Greek names · all names
About Lydia
How common is Lydia today?
Lydia places #92 across the country in 2025, sitting where it has sat for years. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Lydia have a meaning on record?
“of Lydia” is the meaning our source sets down, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Lydia?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Myles, Margot and Damian, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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