Meaning not yet researched.
Lyda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #242 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #242 in 1881; #16,336 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lyda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,336 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #242.
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Lyda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #242 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 145 (1916).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Lyda, making it the 16,336th most common girls’ name of the year, down 5,571 places from #10,765 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 9 girls named Lyda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #242, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 145, in 1916. For comparison, it was #10,583 in 2015 and #1,860 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyda in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 32 babies. In all, 4,978 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 910 babies named Lyda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 109 US girls were named Lyda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lydia (187,317 babies since 1880) and Lida (5,921 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lyda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,336 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,765 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,052 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,324 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,018 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,735 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,186 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,087 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,120 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,102 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,583 | — | — |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,620 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,581 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,462 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,906 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,742 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,067 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,506 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,851 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,315 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,159 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,385 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,126 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,685 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,871 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,365 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,514 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,341 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,134 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,239 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,936 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,325 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,035 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,898 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,727 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,897 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,743 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,410 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,148 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,899 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,764 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,713 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,359 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,271 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,186 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,623 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,345 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,097 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,960 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,920 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,747 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,908 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,481 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1939 | 46 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1936 | 65 | #842 | — | — |
| 1935 | 45 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1933 | 61 | #862 | — | — |
| 1932 | 52 | #984 | — | — |
| 1931 | 48 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1930 | 65 | #906 | — | — |
| 1929 | 61 | #918 | — | — |
| 1928 | 61 | #959 | — | — |
| 1927 | 72 | #879 | — | — |
| 1926 | 75 | #857 | — | — |
| 1925 | 112 | #697 | — | — |
| 1924 | 94 | #770 | 5 | #4,722 |
| 1923 | 83 | #799 | — | — |
| 1922 | 79 | #829 | — | — |
| 1921 | 114 | #693 | — | — |
| 1920 | 96 | #738 | — | — |
| 1919 | 109 | #670 | — | — |
| 1918 | 110 | #686 | — | — |
| 1917 | 109 | #653 | — | — |
| 1916 | 145 | #560 | — | — |
| 1915 | 89 | #710 | — | — |
| 1914 | 102 | #556 | — | — |
| 1913 | 61 | #669 | — | — |
| 1912 | 73 | #564 | — | — |
| 1911 | 57 | #571 | — | — |
| 1910 | 55 | #554 | — | — |
| 1909 | 39 | #632 | — | — |
| 1908 | 46 | #550 | — | — |
| 1907 | 46 | #531 | — | — |
| 1906 | 53 | #468 | — | — |
| 1905 | 47 | #492 | — | — |
| 1904 | 57 | #429 | — | — |
| 1903 | 41 | #501 | — | — |
| 1902 | 58 | #405 | — | — |
| 1901 | 57 | #389 | — | — |
| 1900 | 44 | #511 | — | — |
| 1899 | 56 | #387 | — | — |
| 1898 | 76 | #359 | — | — |
| 1897 | 53 | #402 | — | — |
| 1896 | 59 | #372 | — | — |
| 1895 | 57 | #373 | — | — |
| 1894 | 52 | #391 | — | — |
| 1893 | 54 | #368 | — | — |
| 1892 | 46 | #393 | — | — |
| 1891 | 59 | #327 | — | — |
| 1890 | 56 | #345 | — | — |
| 1889 | 69 | #287 | — | — |
| 1888 | 51 | #338 | — | — |
| 1887 | 36 | #361 | — | — |
| 1886 | 35 | #363 | — | — |
| 1885 | 49 | #287 | — | — |
| 1884 | 39 | #319 | — | — |
| 1883 | 33 | #309 | — | — |
| 1882 | 38 | #288 | — | — |
| 1881 | 43 | #242 | — | — |
| 1880 | 32 | #275 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).