In 2025, 132 US girls were named Lidia, making it the 1,589th most common girls’ name of the year, down 102 places from #1,487 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 147 girls named Lidia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #794, reached in 1937. The most girls given the name in a single year was 243, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,490 in 2015 and #1,047 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lidia in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 11,326 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,977 babies named Lidia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,324 US girls were named Lidia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,176 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lidia ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #834 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lydia (187,317 babies since 1880) and Lida (5,921 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Liddie, Leidi and Liddy are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lyddy.
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