Lidia
The girl's name Lidia has been in the national records since 1888, with 11,326 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,587th. About 9,700 Lidias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lidia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,326
- Estimated living today
- 9,700
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 1,076th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,587th
- First recorded
- 1888
How old the living Lidias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,326 babies given the name since 1888, about 9,700 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lidias
- Lidia Ruslanova (1900–1973)Russian-Soviet singer
- Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921–2011)President of Bolivia
- Lidia Kopania (born 1978)Polish singer
- Lidia Zamenhof (1904–1942)Polish writer, translator, Esperantist and Holocaust victim
- Lidia Șimon (born 1973)Romanian marathon runner
- Lidia Isac (born 1993)Moldovan singer
- Lidia Wysocka (1916–2006)Polish actress
- Lidia Poët (1855–1949)Italian lawyer
People named Lidia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lidia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lidia is most concentrated in Texas (4.4×), California (3.5×), Florida (1.3×), Illinois (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular girls’ names the year Lidia peaked:
Lidia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Lidia | 10,211 birth registrations | 64th |
| Spain girls | Lidia | 7,497 | 42nd |
| Italy girls | Lidia | 3,455 | — |
| France girls | Lidia | 2,235 | 471st |
| England and Wales girls | Lidia | 638 | 955th |
| Norway girls | Lidia | 268 | 295th |
| Switzerland girls | Lidia | 266 | 391st |
| Belgium girls | Lidia | 91 | 818th |
| Ireland girls | Lidia | 68 | 459th |
| Scotland girls | Lidia | 12 | 744th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lidia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lidia | 143 | 0.011% | 407th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lidia | 89 | 0.020% | 210th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lidia | 34 | 0.052% | 69th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lidia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Lidia: rank by region
In 2019, Lidia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lidia | 800 | 5 |
In 2025, Lidia was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Lidia | 72 | 23 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Lidia | 64 | 18 |
| Lubelskie | Lidia | 54 | 21 |
| Lubuskie | Lidia | 93 | 5 |
| Łódzkie | Lidia | 59 | 24 |
| Małopolskie | Lidia | 63 | 44 |
| Mazowieckie | Lidia | 60 | 72 |
| Podkarpackie | Lidia | 70 | 14 |
| Podlaskie | Lidia | 33 | 39 |
| Pomorskie | Lidia | 57 | 37 |
| Śląskie | Lidia | 62 | 44 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Lidia | 72 | 6 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Lidia | 42 | 26 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lidia | 89 | 20 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lidia | 88 | 8 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lidia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 379th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lidia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lidia | 423 | 627 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lidia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 53,100 women called Lidia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Lidia | 1,490 | 3.598 | 53 |
| Barcelona | Lidia | 9,796 | 3.219 | 63 |
| Tarragona | Lidia | 1,328 | 3.038 | 65 |
| Lleida | Lidia | 661 | 2.967 | 64 |
| Granada | Lidia | 1,350 | 2.808 | 76 |
| Cádiz | Lidia | 1,720 | 2.684 | 85 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lidia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.