Lidia

Where Lidia comes from

The dictionaries list Lidia as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Lydia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1900
    Lidia Ruslanova born
    Russian-Soviet singer
  3. 1921
    Lidia Gueiler Tejada born
    President of Bolivia
  4. 1937
    Peak, #788
    75 babies named Lidia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Lydia.
Namesakes
  • Lidia Ruslanova · Russian-Soviet singer, 1900–1973
  • Lidia Gueiler Tejada · President of Bolivia, 1921–2011
  • Lidia Kopania · Polish singer, born 1978
  • Lidia Zamenhof · Polish writer, translator, Esperantist and Holocaust victim, 1904–1942
  • Lidia Șimon · Romanian marathon runner, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.