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Lyda

#16,332 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lydia

Lyda has been given to 4,978 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #16,332 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Lyda, 2025

1 in 663,000

Lyda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lydia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyda means

Lyda is a variant of Lydia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lyda is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lyda → Lydia. The family’s meaning is “the region of Lydia”, recorded in English with the source elements Ludía.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lydia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,973 girls were recorded with the name Lyda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 1916; its best national rank was #242 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,730 in 2020 to #16,332 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,578 in 2015 to #16,332 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lyda between 1924 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,720 in 1924.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lyda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,332
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyda 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lydas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyda was born before 1920 — so the typical Lyda is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
850
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1910s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (910).

Is Lyda 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
−5,572
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,602
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,754
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.4%
Peak was 1916 (145)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#242
1881

Spellings of Lyda

Lyda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 29.6% against Lyda's 0.10%.

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 Lyda is used

Across 1910–2025, Lyda was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 105,081 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 11,111
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 33,333
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Alabama1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

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. Lyda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lyda around the world

Where Lyda 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.

  • France
    1903–1995
    #3,131
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1950–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lyda

People whose public names include Lyda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lyda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lyda. Linked forms have their own page here.

LidaLydia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lyda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,332
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,602
Best rank ever
#242
1881
Peak year
1916
145 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,973
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,720
1924
Peak year
1924
5 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyda

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

AydaVaydaZaydaLydieJaydaAleydaLydiahKaydaVeydaLydiaLydianLeydaSaydaLydiannNereydaClydaNeydaBriseydaMaydaGydaLydianaNaydaIlaydaLydea

Names with a curve like Lyda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lyda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VinaSudieMittieArtieZulaLinniePinkieBlanchOrphaEstaLennieAlpha

Sibling names for Lyda

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

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