Lidya
Lidya was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,644 among girls’ names; 412 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lidya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lidya?
#8,644 among girls’ names, 2025
Lidya fell from #6,876 in 2015 to #8,644 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
23 babies in 2024, the peak
Lidya peaked in 2024, when 23 girls were given it, #5,540 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,644 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,540 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,893 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,878 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,293 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,971 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,407 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,405 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,280 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,398 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,876 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,595 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,600 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,123 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,028 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,884 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,216 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,955 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,818 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,051 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,598 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,235 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,114 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,716 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,859 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,378 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,200 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,982 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,372 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,664 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,256 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,651 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,242 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,692 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,875 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,390 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,159 | 4.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,688 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,901 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,803 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lidya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lidya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lidya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lidya, and how old are they?
An estimated 407 Americans named Lidya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,068 people named Lidya (1,064 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 332 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Lidya?
Lidya is a less common spelling of Lydia: SSA has recorded 412 Lidya and 187,317 Lydia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 210,263 babies since 1880, Lidya is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 2,852 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lidya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lidya and names like it
- Compare Lidya and LydiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLidya peaked in 2024.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lidya since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lidya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lidya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.