Meaning not yet researched.
Lydia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,692 in 2025. Its best rank was #75 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #75 in 1883; #92 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lydia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#92 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #75.
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Lydia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,692 girls in 2025. Peak: #75 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 3,652 (2014).
In 2025, 2,692 US girls were named Lydia, making it the 92nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #97 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 2,678 girls named Lydia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #75, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,652, in 2014. For comparison, it was #80 in 2015 and #223 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lydia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 302 babies with the name. In all, 187,317 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 32,748 babies named Lydia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29,856 US girls were named Lydia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,625. In 2025 that was about 1 in 597 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lydia ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #28 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 32 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lidia (11,326 babies since 1880) and Lyda (4,978 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Leydi, Lidya and Lydie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lyddy.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Leydi (522), Lidya (412), Lydie (337), Lydiah (313), Lidiya (134), Lidie (91), Ledia (76), Lydea (59), Lidija (7), Liddia (6), Lidio (5), Lydya (5), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 63 | #28 | #37 |
| North Dakota | 18 | #34 | #40 |
| Maine | 20 | #36 | #15 |
| West Virginia | 28 | #37 | #48 |
| Wyoming | 8 | #37 | #55 |
| Nebraska | 35 | #38 | #61 |
| Missouri | 94 | #41 | #32 |
| Kentucky | 74 | #41 | #50 |
| Kansas | 49 | #46 | #40 |
| Minnesota | 81 | #46 | #34 |
| Pennsylvania | 157 | #51 | #33 |
| Ohio | 147 | #52 | #38 |
| Montana | 14 | #58 | #49 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #60 | #42 |
| Indiana | 88 | #62 | #36 |
| Vermont | 7 | #63 | #57 |
| South Dakota | 13 | #69 | #46 |
| Wisconsin | 64 | #69 | #36 |
| Michigan | 93 | #73 | #40 |
| Virginia | 84 | #75 | #77 |
| Oklahoma | 42 | #79 | #80 |
| Idaho | 24 | #81 | #49 |
| Utah | 51 | #82 | #24 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #85 | #84 |
| Oregon | 37 | #85 | #109 |
| Alabama | 48 | #86 | #64 |
| Georgia | 92 | #90 | #113 |
| Colorado | 56 | #91 | #92 |
| Mississippi | 24 | #92 | #120 |
| Tennessee | 78 | #93 | #53 |
| Maryland | 46 | #94 | #86 |
| South Carolina | 43 | #98 | #77 |
| North Carolina | 93 | #106 | #58 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #108 | #207 |
| Washington | 56 | #113 | #92 |
| Massachusetts | 43 | #125 | #70 |
| Louisiana | 33 | #125 | #125 |
| Texas | 233 | #137 | #195 |
| Arkansas | 21 | #141 | #59 |
| New York | 105 | #154 | #145 |
| Connecticut | 20 | #155 | #175 |
| Delaware | 6 | #156 | #59 |
| Arizona | 41 | #156 | #141 |
| Illinois | 56 | #177 | #93 |
| Florida | 97 | #191 | #160 |
| Nevada | 13 | #206 | #223 |
| California | 121 | #274 | #253 |
| New Jersey | 26 | #318 | #276 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,692 | #92 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,678 | #97 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,735 | #94 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,818 | #93 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,935 | #89 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,804 | #95 | 6 | #11,450 |
| 2019 | 3,015 | #94 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,213 | #89 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,341 | #85 | 7 | #10,362 |
| 2016 | 3,625 | #80 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,514 | #80 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,652 | #84 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,262 | #95 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 2012 | 3,176 | #95 | — | — |
| 2011 | 3,092 | #96 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,840 | #110 | 6 | #11,650 |
| 2009 | 2,830 | #117 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,876 | #120 | — | — |
| 2007 | 2,773 | #124 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,668 | #130 | 5 | #13,254 |
| 2005 | 2,785 | #119 | 8 | #8,795 |
| 2004 | 2,636 | #126 | 16 | #5,159 |
| 2003 | 2,647 | #127 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,512 | #137 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,364 | #140 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,321 | #147 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,189 | #148 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,071 | #153 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,937 | #160 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,813 | #173 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,759 | #169 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,603 | #188 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,421 | #206 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,414 | #202 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,378 | #214 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,406 | #204 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,262 | #217 | 5 | #8,724 |
| 1988 | 1,174 | #221 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,209 | #219 | 10 | #4,451 |
| 1986 | 1,129 | #229 | 13 | #3,572 |
| 1985 | 1,220 | #212 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,201 | #217 | 8 | #4,813 |
| 1983 | 1,023 | #239 | 5 | #6,907 |
| 1982 | 1,051 | #240 | 5 | #6,970 |
| 1981 | 940 | #265 | — | — |
| 1980 | 862 | #287 | 5 | #6,870 |
| 1979 | 803 | #296 | 5 | #6,667 |
| 1978 | 708 | #324 | 5 | #6,402 |
| 1977 | 765 | #312 | — | — |
| 1976 | 747 | #307 | — | — |
| 1975 | 669 | #333 | 7 | #4,609 |
| 1974 | 722 | #316 | — | — |
| 1973 | 677 | #329 | — | — |
| 1972 | 753 | #319 | 7 | #4,264 |
| 1971 | 844 | #315 | — | — |
| 1970 | 924 | #307 | 5 | #5,165 |
| 1969 | 807 | #320 | — | — |
| 1968 | 863 | #300 | — | — |
| 1967 | 877 | #289 | — | — |
| 1966 | 954 | #273 | 5 | #4,311 |
| 1965 | 1,079 | #263 | 7 | #3,435 |
| 1964 | 1,183 | #259 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,291 | #246 | 5 | #4,407 |
| 1962 | 1,412 | #226 | 5 | #4,415 |
| 1961 | 1,573 | #214 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,670 | #205 | 6 | #3,906 |
| 1959 | 1,561 | #210 | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1958 | 1,577 | #207 | 6 | #3,782 |
| 1957 | 1,621 | #206 | 6 | #3,815 |
| 1956 | 1,545 | #206 | 5 | #4,265 |
| 1955 | 1,585 | #200 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,560 | #197 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,560 | #201 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,327 | #213 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,150 | #225 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,127 | #223 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,241 | #214 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,222 | #209 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,050 | #230 | — | — |
| 1946 | 886 | #239 | — | — |
| 1945 | 856 | #224 | — | — |
| 1944 | 807 | #233 | — | — |
| 1943 | 864 | #228 | 7 | #3,122 |
| 1942 | 854 | #225 | 5 | #3,871 |
| 1941 | 682 | #247 | 10 | #2,429 |
| 1940 | 726 | #235 | 5 | #3,762 |
| 1939 | 680 | #239 | 5 | #3,785 |
| 1938 | 677 | #242 | — | — |
| 1937 | 687 | #238 | 9 | #2,610 |
| 1936 | 688 | #237 | 7 | #3,054 |
| 1935 | 669 | #244 | 10 | #2,479 |
| 1934 | 632 | #248 | — | — |
| 1933 | 668 | #237 | — | — |
| 1932 | 630 | #246 | — | — |
| 1931 | 646 | #235 | — | — |
| 1930 | 687 | #233 | 5 | #4,335 |
| 1929 | 745 | #223 | 5 | #4,330 |
| 1928 | 815 | #219 | 5 | #4,502 |
| 1927 | 876 | #217 | 7 | #3,662 |
| 1926 | 813 | #223 | — | — |
| 1925 | 954 | #207 | — | — |
| 1924 | 912 | #214 | 5 | #4,723 |
| 1923 | 966 | #204 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,025 | #199 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,052 | #197 | — | — |
| 1920 | 1,118 | #185 | 5 | #4,697 |
| 1919 | 1,059 | #186 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,148 | #180 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,180 | #169 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,148 | #168 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,086 | #170 | — | — |
| 1914 | 839 | #168 | — | — |
| 1913 | 759 | #154 | — | — |
| 1912 | 701 | #152 | — | — |
| 1911 | 568 | #142 | — | — |
| 1910 | 537 | #152 | — | — |
| 1909 | 503 | #142 | — | — |
| 1908 | 499 | #140 | — | — |
| 1907 | 512 | #131 | — | — |
| 1906 | 477 | #132 | — | — |
| 1905 | 518 | #123 | — | — |
| 1904 | 545 | #112 | — | — |
| 1903 | 502 | #116 | — | — |
| 1902 | 535 | #112 | 5 | #1,244 |
| 1901 | 507 | #103 | — | — |
| 1900 | 644 | #104 | — | — |
| 1899 | 566 | #97 | — | — |
| 1898 | 677 | #88 | — | — |
| 1897 | 642 | #83 | — | — |
| 1896 | 580 | #91 | — | — |
| 1895 | 656 | #85 | — | — |
| 1894 | 618 | #85 | — | — |
| 1893 | 598 | #81 | — | — |
| 1892 | 522 | #93 | — | — |
| 1891 | 507 | #86 | — | — |
| 1890 | 576 | #78 | — | — |
| 1889 | 496 | #83 | — | — |
| 1888 | 472 | #85 | — | — |
| 1887 | 448 | #76 | — | — |
| 1886 | 392 | #87 | — | — |
| 1885 | 404 | #77 | — | — |
| 1884 | 369 | #80 | — | — |
| 1883 | 378 | #75 | — | — |
| 1882 | 342 | #76 | — | — |
| 1881 | 299 | #77 | — | — |
| 1880 | 302 | #77 | — | — |
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).