Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GreekLydia is a feminine first name. It derives from the Greek Λυδία, Ludía, from λυδία, a feminine form of the ancient given name Λυδός.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Lydia yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Lydia's best rank of 75 dates to 1883, while its highest birth count came in 2014 — a gap of 131 years, the widest in this batch and among the widest anywhere on the site. It has fallen 27% since that recent peak, to 2,663 births at rank 97, with 184,572 births accumulated since 1880. The bearer list is unusually literary and unusually international: Lydia Maria Child, born 1802, an abolitionist writer; the Estonian poet Lydia Koidula, born 1843; the novelist Lydia Davis. Liliʻuokalani, born 1838, the last monarch of Hawaii, appears under her baptismal name Lydia. Of Greek origin and biblical in use, Lydia has never been fashionable enough to become dated, which is a durable position to hold.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 302 | #77 |
| 1881 | 299 | #77 |
| 1882 | 342 | #76 |
| 1883 | 378 | #75 |
| 1884 | 369 | #80 |
| 1885 | 404 | #77 |
| 1886 | 392 | #87 |
| 1887 | 448 | #76 |
| 1888 | 472 | #85 |
| 1889 | 496 | #83 |
| 1890 | 576 | #78 |
| 1891 | 507 | #86 |
| 1892 | 522 | #93 |
| 1893 | 598 | #81 |
| 1894 | 618 | #85 |
| 1895 | 656 | #85 |
| 1896 | 580 | #91 |
| 1897 | 642 | #83 |
| 1898 | 677 | #88 |
| 1899 | 566 | #97 |
| 1900 | 644 | #104 |
| 1901 | 507 | #103 |
| 1902 | 535 | #112 |
| 1903 | 502 | #116 |
| 1904 | 545 | #112 |
| 1905 | 518 | #123 |
| 1906 | 477 | #132 |
| 1907 | 512 | #131 |
| 1908 | 499 | #140 |
| 1909 | 503 | #142 |
| 1910 | 537 | #152 |
| 1911 | 568 | #142 |
| 1912 | 701 | #152 |
| 1913 | 759 | #154 |
| 1914 | 839 | #168 |
| 1915 | 1,086 | #170 |
| 1916 | 1,148 | #168 |
| 1917 | 1,180 | #169 |
| 1918 | 1,148 | #180 |
| 1919 | 1,059 | #186 |
| 1920 | 1,118 | #185 |
| 1921 | 1,052 | #197 |
| 1922 | 1,025 | #199 |
| 1923 | 966 | #204 |
| 1924 | 912 | #214 |
| 1925 | 954 | #207 |
| 1926 | 813 | #223 |
| 1927 | 876 | #217 |
| 1928 | 815 | #219 |
| 1929 | 745 | #223 |
| 1930 | 687 | #233 |
| 1931 | 646 | #235 |
| 1932 | 630 | #246 |
| 1933 | 668 | #237 |
| 1934 | 632 | #248 |
| 1935 | 669 | #244 |
| 1936 | 688 | #237 |
| 1937 | 687 | #238 |
| 1938 | 677 | #242 |
| 1939 | 680 | #239 |
| 1940 | 726 | #235 |
| 1941 | 682 | #247 |
| 1942 | 854 | #225 |
| 1943 | 864 | #228 |
| 1944 | 807 | #233 |
| 1945 | 856 | #224 |
| 1946 | 886 | #239 |
| 1947 | 1,050 | #230 |
| 1948 | 1,222 | #209 |
| 1949 | 1,241 | #214 |
| 1950 | 1,127 | #223 |
| 1951 | 1,150 | #225 |
| 1952 | 1,327 | #213 |
| 1953 | 1,560 | #201 |
| 1954 | 1,559 | #197 |
| 1955 | 1,585 | #200 |
| 1956 | 1,545 | #206 |
| 1957 | 1,621 | #206 |
| 1958 | 1,577 | #207 |
| 1959 | 1,561 | #210 |
| 1960 | 1,670 | #205 |
| 1961 | 1,574 | #214 |
| 1962 | 1,411 | #226 |
| 1963 | 1,291 | #246 |
| 1964 | 1,183 | #259 |
| 1965 | 1,079 | #263 |
| 1966 | 954 | #273 |
| 1967 | 877 | #289 |
| 1968 | 863 | #300 |
| 1969 | 807 | #320 |
| 1970 | 924 | #307 |
| 1971 | 845 | #314 |
| 1972 | 753 | #319 |
| 1973 | 677 | #328 |
| 1974 | 722 | #316 |
| 1975 | 669 | #333 |
| 1976 | 747 | #307 |
| 1977 | 765 | #312 |
| 1978 | 708 | #324 |
| 1979 | 803 | #296 |
| 1980 | 862 | #287 |
| 1981 | 940 | #265 |
| 1982 | 1,051 | #240 |
| 1983 | 1,024 | #239 |
| 1984 | 1,201 | #217 |
| 1985 | 1,220 | #212 |
| 1986 | 1,129 | #229 |
| 1987 | 1,210 | #219 |
| 1988 | 1,174 | #221 |
| 1989 | 1,262 | #217 |
| 1990 | 1,406 | #204 |
| 1991 | 1,378 | #214 |
| 1992 | 1,414 | #202 |
| 1993 | 1,420 | #206 |
| 1994 | 1,603 | #188 |
| 1995 | 1,759 | #169 |
| 1996 | 1,813 | #173 |
| 1997 | 1,937 | #160 |
| 1998 | 2,071 | #153 |
| 1999 | 2,189 | #148 |
| 2000 | 2,321 | #147 |
| 2001 | 2,364 | #140 |
| 2002 | 2,511 | #137 |
| 2003 | 2,645 | #127 |
| 2004 | 2,633 | #126 |
| 2005 | 2,783 | #119 |
| 2006 | 2,668 | #130 |
| 2007 | 2,772 | #124 |
| 2008 | 2,875 | #120 |
| 2009 | 2,830 | #117 |
| 2010 | 2,839 | #110 |
| 2011 | 3,090 | #96 |
| 2012 | 3,175 | #95 |
| 2013 | 3,261 | #95 |
| 2014 | 3,652 | #84 |
| 2015 | 3,512 | #80 |
| 2016 | 3,622 | #80 |
| 2017 | 3,339 | #85 |
| 2018 | 3,212 | #89 |
| 2019 | 3,014 | #94 |
| 2020 | 2,803 | #95 |
| 2021 | 2,931 | #89 |
| 2022 | 2,815 | #93 |
| 2023 | 2,729 | #95 |
| 2024 | 2,663 | #97 |
