Fewer than five US girls were named Nydia in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,389, reached in 1976. The most girls given the name in a single year was 84, in 1992. For comparison, it was #6,916 in 2015 and #1,707 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nydia in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 6 babies. In all, 3,704 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 668 babies named Nydia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 91 US girls were named Nydia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nidia (2,756 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nidya, Neydi and Nedia are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.