Lyda

Where Lyda comes from

Lyda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #275 among girls — 32 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #240
    43 babies named Lyda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    Lyda Borelli born
    Italian actress
  4. 1906
    Lyda Roberti born
    actress
  5. 1953
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,595.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lyda Borelli · Italian actress, 1884–1959
  • Lyda Roberti · actress, 1906–1938
  • Lyda Salmonová · Czech actress, 1889–1968
  • Lyda Conley · Wyandot-American lawyer, 1874–1946
  • Lyda Green · American politician, 1938–2023

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.