Lydie
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lydie is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin form meaning « de Lydie », from the ancient region of Lydia in Asia Minor.
- UAUkraine1 in 114◐
- MDMoldova1 in 130
- RURussia1 in 224
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈476K ●
- #138 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 471 ●
- 1 in 130 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.3M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Lidia in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 10 more, Lydia in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 5 more, Лидия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 1 more and Лідія in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Latin form meaning « de Lydie », from the ancient region of Lydia in Asia Minor.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #52 | 4,614,567 | 864K rec. | — | #20 | Лидия | 167 |
| UA Ukraine | #35 | 2,780,613 | 2.8M rec. | — | listed | Лідія | 48 |
| AR Argentina | #154 | 1,105,188 | 738K rec. | — | 36 | Lidia | 97 |
| MX Mexico | #122 | 452,705 | 359K rec. | — | 1K | Lidia | 165 |
| PE Peru | #115 | 251,093 | 210K rec. | — | — | Lidia | 72 |
| US United States | #374 | 139,374 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 139K | Lydia | 471 |
| CL Chile | #168 | 104,436 | 5.4K rec. | — | 9 | Lidia | 81 |
| PH Philippines | #229 | 87,217 | 84K rec. | — | — | Lydia | 82 |
| PL Poland | #132 | 81,723△ | 9K rec. | 1 in 468 | 82K | Lidia | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | #357 | 79,642 | 60K rec. | — | 27 | Lydia | 210 |
| BR Brazil | #311 | 76,317△ | 38K rec. | 1 in 2.8K | 88K | Lidia | 160 |
| DE Germany | #307 | 71,118 | 66K rec. | — | 5 | Lydia | 200 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French373K90%
- Czech23K5%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)5.4K1%
- English4.9K1%
- Spanish7681%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 372,719 | 90% |
| Czech | 22,538 | 5% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 5,416 | 1% |
| English | 4,876 | 1% |
| Spanish | 768 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Lydie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Lydia, an ancient region name of Anatolia; Greek origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Lydia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du grec Lydia, «originaire de Lydie»; sainte Lydie, fêtée le 3 août.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du nom de la Lydie, ancienne région d’Asie Mineure; évoque aussi le prénom biblique Lydia.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 10 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 10 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 15 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 20 |
| 1986 | 20 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 20 |
| 1990 | 15 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 10 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 94 years between 1905–2012. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lydia Maria Childb. 1802USnot in their usual nameAmerican abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
- Liliuokalanib. 1838USnot in their usual namemonarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
- Lydia Koidulab. 1843EEnot in their usual nameEstonian poet (1843-1886)
- Lydia Clarkeb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and photographer (1923-2018)
- Lydia Alfonsib. 1928ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1928–2022)
- Helen Mirrenb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1945)
- Linda Huntb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Lydia Davisb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (born 1947)
- Lydie Polferb. 1952LULuxembourgish politician (born 1952)
- Tina Arenab. 1967AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer, songwriter and television personality
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 491 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lydie?
- We estimate roughly 476 thousand people bear Lydie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lydie have the most bearers?
- Lydie is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled лидия.
- How common is Lydie compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lydie is the 52nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Lydie a male or female name?
- Lydie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lydie mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latin form meaning « de Lydie », from the ancient region of Lydia in Asia Minor.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lydie” — the 52nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.