Loida

Girls' name

Form of Lois

Loida has been given to 695 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Loida, 2023

1 in 663,000

Loida over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Loida: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lois

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Loida means

Loida is a form of Lois.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Loida is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈloi̯.ða/ for Loida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Loida is a form of Lois. Lois has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lois.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 695 girls were recorded with the name Loida between 1933 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,264 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Loida?

Loida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Loida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Loida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Loidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Loida was born before 1979 — so the typical Loida is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 21.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 663; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Loida 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1994 (21)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,264; 1963

Spellings of Loida

Loida is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 38.8% against Loida's 0.02%.

Linda38.8%1,455,143
Lisa25.8%967,229
Lois8.9%332,950
Ida5.0%187,929
Lola2.6%96,892
Lynda2.1%77,979
Lila2.0%76,493
Leila1.5%55,436

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.

Where Loida is used

Across 1910–2025, Loida was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 306,768 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000
2California1 in —
3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Loida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Loida by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,264; 1963
Peak year: 1994; 21 that year
First recorded: 1933
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 695
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Loida

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Kaida Loise Vaida Saida Naida Fraida Farida Rida Maida Nida Merida Leida Veida Zaida Loie Aleida Alida Melida Reida Kida Neida Eneida Iraida Dalida

Sibling names for Loida

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Breonna Austin Darian Rikki Khadijah Kaylene Jacquelynn Salena

For a brother

Denton Jade Trever Darion Darrius Mackenzie Daquan Dashawn

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