Lydia — #97 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lydia

The Social Security Administration has registered 184,295 babies named Lydia between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lydia currently holds the #97 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 3,652 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lydia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 32,716 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lydia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15,908 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lydia in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lydia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 184,295 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.