Lydie
Lydie was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,658 among girls’ names; 337 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lydie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lydie mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Lydie is “a female given name”
/li.di/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lydie?
#12,658 among girls’ names, 2025
Lydie entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,658 in 2025.
16 babies in 1919, the peak
Lydie peaked in 1919, when 16 girls were given it, #2,213 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,658 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,926 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,921 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,616 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,304 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,307 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,472 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,983 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,764 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,479 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,209 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,606 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,757 | 3.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,111 | 4.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,296 | 4.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,795 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,792 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,774 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,381 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,108 | 3.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,792 | 4.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,654 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,622 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,998 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,432 | 7.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,551 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,739 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,278 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,299 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,501 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,213 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,934 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,992 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,861 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,819 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,449 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,697 | 11.2 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,613 | 23.9 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,323 | 32.7 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,107 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,585 | 25.1 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,028 | 47.1 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,371 | 28.2 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,447 | 27.0 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,098 | 39.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lydie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lydie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lydie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lydie, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Lydie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 5 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Lydie (691 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.3 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,707 babies since 1880, Lydie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,842 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 Lydie
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 Lydie and names like it
- Compare Lydie and LydiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sLydie peaked in 1919.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lydie since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Lydie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Lydie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lydie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.