Lydie
Lydie is a girl's name that peaked in 1919, when it was the 2,156th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 11,932nd. About 140 Lydies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lydie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 337
- Estimated living today
- 140
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 2,156th
- Rank in 2025
- 11,932nd
- First recorded
- 1888
How old the living Lydies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 337 babies given the name since 1888, about 140 are alive — 42 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Notable Lydies
- Lydie Salvayre (born 1946)French writer
- Lydie Polfer (born 1952)Luxembourgish politician
People named Lydie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lydie is most common
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular girls’ names the year Lydie peaked:
Lydie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lydie | 63,295 | 58th |
| Belgium girls | Lydie | 261 | 383rd |
| France boys | Lydie | 115 | 447th |
| Switzerland girls | Lydie | 97 | 576th |
| England and Wales girls | Lydie | 15 | 5,687th |
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.
Lydie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lydie | 7 | 0.001% | 1,008th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lydie | 90 | 0.021% | 200th |
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, Lydie is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Lydie: rank by region
In 2021, Lydie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Lydie | 502 | 5 |
In 2021, Lydie was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lydie | 7 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Related names
Lydie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.