Lydia

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Lydia is ranked 97th among girls in 2024 (2,663 births). Its best rank was 75th, in 1883.

Rank in 2024: #97down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2,6630.17% of girls
Peak year: 20143,652 births
Best rank: #75in 1883
Since 1880: 184,295people given the name

Babies named Lydia, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

184,295 girls have been named Lydia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 3,652 births — 0.20% of all girls recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 84 → 97).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 2010s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Lydia
1880s	3,902
1890s	5,942
1900s	5,242
1910s	9,025
1920s	9,276
1930s	6,664
1940s	9,188
1950s	14,612
1960s	11,709
1970s	7,613
1980s	11,073
1990s	16,990
2000s	26,402
2010s	32,716
2020s	13,941

In 2014, its biggest year

Lydia was the 84th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Lydia

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Lidia11,193 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.