Idia
#13,846 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Idia has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #13,846 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Idia, 2025
1 in 553,000
Idia over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Idia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,846
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Idia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Idias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Idia was born before 1938 — so the typical Idia is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 30.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Idia rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 85.7%
- Peak was 1916 (7)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Idia
Idia is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 14.3% against Idia's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Idia around the world
Where Idia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2022–2025#3,333in 2025
- France1928–2025#7,341in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Idia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Idia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Idia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.