Lydia Forename
633rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,272,677 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Uganda
Highest density in:
Namibia
Lydia Forename Definition:
A female name. Greek Λυδία ‘woman of Lydia'. Lydia of Thyatira is mentioned in Acts xvi, and was, in apocryphal writings, identified with a d. of Joseph of Nazareth. The name came into use in England in the 17th C.
Lydia Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 100% | 130,663 | 1:313 | 62 |
| United States | 100% | 126,541 | 1:2,865 | 501 |
| Philippines | 99% | 120,969 | 1:876 | 162 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 112,350 | 1:1,580 | 290 |
| Kenya | 100% | 102,915 | 1:450 | 83 |
| Germany | 100% | 101,894 | 1:949 | 219 |
| Ghana | 100% | 70,176 | 1:385 | 78 |
| South Africa | 100% | 47,865 | 1:1,139 | 142 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 38,742 | 1:1,363 | 289 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 32,346 | 1:731 | 154 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 22,827 | 1:676 | 115 |
| Malawi | 100% | 21,554 | 1:794 | 173 |
| Zambia | - | 21,111 | 1:751 | 163 |
| Burundi | 100% | 20,276 | 1:489 | 133 |
| France | 100% | 19,591 | 1:3,393 | 360 |
| England | 100% | 16,423 | 1:3,386 | 454 |
| Mexico | 100% | 16,003 | 1:7,758 | 761 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 15,286 | 1:1,414 | 294 |
| Brazil | 100% | 13,113 | 1:16,338 | 1,591 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 12,915 | 1:5,716 | 698 |
| Spain | 100% | 10,773 | 1:4,319 | 446 |
| Namibia | - | 10,544 | 1:228 | 30 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 10,452 | 1:24,681 | 3,379 |
| Argentina | 100% | 10,451 | 1:4,093 | 402 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 10,234 | 1:1,652 | 343 |
| Belgium | 100% | 8,791 | 1:1,307 | 311 |
| Canada | 100% | 8,596 | 1:3,855 | 657 |
| Rwanda | - | 8,460 | 1:1,344 | 285 |
| Egypt | 100% | 7,287 | 1:12,612 | 1,129 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 6,951 | 1:1,182 | 253 |
| Sudan | 100% | 6,346 | 1:5,958 | 914 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 6,206 | 1:1,314 | 155 |
| Algeria | 100% | 5,647 | 1:6,761 | 684 |
| Israel | 100% | 5,365 | 1:1,566 | 348 |
| Liberia | 99% | 5,018 | 1:879 | 172 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 4,918 | 1:1,441 | 297 |
| Congo | 100% | 4,650 | 1:1,077 | 164 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 4,628 | 1:6,580 | 753 |
| Austria | 100% | 4,584 | 1:1,857 | 267 |
| Mozambique | - | 4,320 | 1:6,306 | 1,134 |
| Benin | 100% | 4,304 | 1:2,457 | 532 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4,226 | 1:840 | 147 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 3,121 | 1:31,259 | 3,674 |
| Greece | 100% | 2,599 | 1:4,207 | 339 |
| Australia | - | 2,547 | 1:5,362 | 683 |
| India | 100% | 2,034 | 1:597,285 | 45,632 |
| Jamaica | - | 2,000 | 1:1,442 | 351 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1,953 | 1:2,882 | 515 |
| China | - | 1,846 | 1:740,009 | 30,752 |
| Togo | - | 1,731 | 1:4,182 | 696 |
| Botswana | 100% | 1,704 | 1:1,282 | 228 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,515 | 1:20,338 | 2,686 |
| Iraq | 100% | 1,265 | 1:27,682 | 1,322 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,243 | 1:1,515 | 363 |
| Denmark | - | 1,177 | 1:4,800 | 579 |
| Peru | 100% | 1,125 | 1:28,259 | 1,920 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1,100 | 1:8,962 | 821 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,087 | 1:4,173 | 628 |
| Thailand | 100% | 980 | 1:71,496 | 6,812 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 964 | 1:6,243 | 816 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 963 | 1:1,414 | 268 |
| Wales | 100% | 935 | 1:3,309 | 480 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 852 | 1:12,243 | 1,353 |
| Italy | 100% | 811 | 1:75,292 | 1,635 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 787 | 1:738 | 144 |
| Scotland | 100% | 765 | 1:6,994 | 578 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 750 | 1:4,570 | 462 |
| Cuba | - | 715 | 1:16,093 | 971 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 715 | 1:29,090 | 3,562 |
| Haiti | 100% | 683 | 1:15,706 | 1,428 |
| Lesotho | 99% | 675 | 1:3,022 | 456 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 638 | 1:8,323 | 392 |
| Panama | 100% | 631 | 1:6,191 | 983 |
| Colombia | 100% | 589 | 1:81,119 | 2,906 |
| Singapore | 100% | 531 | 1:11,840 | 2,361 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 524 | 1:35,075 | 2,703 |
| El Salvador | - | 506 | 1:12,533 | 850 |
| Czechia | 100% | 484 | 1:22,017 | 600 |
| Vanuatu | - | 477 | 1:549 | 123 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 471 | 1:3,913 | 491 |
| Suriname | 100% | 461 | 1:1,199 | 244 |
| Bangladesh | - | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Norway | 100% | 449 | 1:11,431 | 939 |
| Ireland | 100% | 435 | 1:10,675 | 731 |
| Poland | 100% | 424 | 1:89,687 | 2,012 |
| Chile | 100% | 403 | 1:43,690 | 1,665 |
| Belize | 100% | 395 | 1:897 | 176 |
| Hong Kong | - | 383 | 1:20,242 | 2,142 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 376 | 1:80,324 | 3,933 |
| Bahamas | - | 361 | 1:1,106 | 281 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 359 | 1:44,870 | 1,602 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 351 | 1:770 | 176 |
| Ivory Coast | 99% | 348 | 1:66,310 | 4,544 |
| Fiji | - | 345 | 1:2,587 | 730 |
| Portugal | - | 295 | 1:35,291 | 1,384 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 279 | 1:85,196 | 10,730 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 267 | 1:17,857 | 1,303 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 258 | 1:689 | 96 |
| Honduras | 100% | 254 | 1:34,714 | 1,909 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 247 | 1:3,527 | 474 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 235 | 1:2,400 | 349 |
| French Polynesia | - | 232 | 1:1,198 | 265 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 227 | 1:46,702 | 1,963 |
| Malta | - | 222 | 1:1,934 | 369 |
| Guyana | 100% | 211 | 1:3,617 | 687 |
| Guam | - | 206 | 1:780 | 153 |
| Swaziland | - | 205 | 1:6,342 | 1,007 |
| Qatar | 100% | 204 | 1:11,616 | 1,825 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 200 | 1:463 | 79 |
| Jordan | 100% | 188 | 1:46,951 | 1,513 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 181 | 1:39,982 | 1,714 |
| South Korea | 100% | 180 | 1:30,802 | 2,496 |
| Palestine | 100% | 177 | 1:25,707 | 1,193 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 170 | 1:646 | 110 |
| Syria | - | 168 | 1:114,917 | 1,985 |
| Morocco | 100% | 164 | 1:209,443 | 5,367 |
| Estonia | 100% | 163 | 1:8,070 | 1,006 |
| Grenada | 100% | 151 | 1:716 | 122 |
| Kuwait | - | 142 | 1:26,657 | 2,664 |
| Finland | 100% | 139 | 1:39,447 | 1,534 |
| Ecuador | - | 120 | 1:147,724 | 2,955 |
| Russia | 100% | 120 | 1:1,201,948 | 9,690 |
| Bahrain | - | 104 | 1:12,968 | 2,016 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 101 | 1:541 | 86 |
| Japan | - | 96 | 1:1,333,188 | 16,859 |
| Yemen | - | 92 | 1:285,834 | 1,942 |
| Barbados | - | 90 | 1:3,220 | 599 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 76 | 1:1,308 | 280 |
| Aruba | - | 75 | 1:1,384 | 281 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 59 | 1:1,891 | 367 |
| Senegal | 100% | 59 | 1:247,142 | 4,529 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 50 | 1:694 | 139 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 47 | 1:1,167 | 268 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 44 | 1:710 | 125 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 40 | 1:1,137,498 | 3,606 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 35 | 1:1,404 | 301 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 35 | 1:1,082 | 229 |
| Bermuda | - | 34 | 1:1,907 | 425 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 34 | 1:210,353 | 13,097 |
| Kazakhstan | 86% | 32 | 1:554,589 | 7,795 |
| Greenland | - | 31 | 1:1,818 | 338 |
| Croatia | 100% | 30 | 1:140,569 | 2,926 |
| Jersey | - | 28 | 1:3,571 | 499 |
| Romania | - | 28 | 1:716,142 | 19,534 |
| Brunei | 100% | 27 | 1:15,540 | 979 |
| Iceland | 67% | 24 | 1:15,251 | 1,184 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 23 | 1:2,227 | 336 |
| Monaco | 100% | 22 | 1:1,748 | 360 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 21 | 1:1,553,501 | 15,583 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 21 | 1:2,919 | 610 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 20 | 1:33,845 | 2,035 |
| Turkey | 100% | 19 | 1:4,094,827 | 20,430 |
| Hungary | 100% | 17 | 1:575,987 | 2,039 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Niger | 100% | 16 | 1:1,199,000 | 17,651 |
| Cape Verde | - | 14 | 1:37,796 | 2,029 |
| Gibraltar | - | 14 | 1:2,438 | 470 |
| Cook Islands | 100% | 13 | 1:1,396 | 227 |
| Curaçao | - | 13 | 1:11,985 | 645 |
| Nauru | 100% | 13 | 1:917 | 142 |
| Belarus | 100% | 11 | 1:862,035 | 4,760 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 11 | 1:223,523 | 3,995 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 10 | 1:1,326 | 247 |
| Bulgaria | - | 9 | 1:776,710 | 9,666 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 9 | 1:21,595,298 | 106,286 |
| Palau | - | 9 | 1:2,412 | 36 |
| Saint Martin | - | 9 | 1:3,972 | 74 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 9 | 1:930,547 | 3,856 |
| Dominica | - | 8 | 1:9,434 | 375 |
| Serbia | - | 7 | 1:1,020,817 | 6,233 |
| Vietnam | - | 7 | 1:13,231,873 | 4,411 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 6 | 1:14,170 | 269 |
| Albania | 100% | 5 | 1:609,314 | 20,025 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Djibouti | - | 4 | 1:228,916 | 1,301 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Gambia | - | 4 | 1:481,649 | 818 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Guinea | 100% | 3 | 1:3,952,882 | 6,312 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 3 | 1:1,991,092 | 30,660 |
| Latvia | - | 3 | 1:671,882 | 3,893 |
| Mauritius | - | 3 | 1:432,595 | 7,262 |
| Micronesia | - | 3 | 1:35,500 | 1,253 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| North Macedonia | - | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 1 | 1:6,315 | 385 |
| San Marino | 100% | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
The alternate forms: Lýdia (8,684), Lydía (17) & Lýdía (19) are calculated separately.
Lydia (8,732) may also be a surname.
Lydia Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Greek Λυδία ‘woman of Lydia'. Lydia of Thyatira is mentioned in Acts xvi, and was, in apocryphal writings, identified with a d. of Joseph of Nazareth. The name came into use in England in the 17th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Greek, ‘(a woman) of Lydia,’ that district of Asia Minor which, ‘an early seat of Asiatic civilization,’ exercised ‘a very important influence on the Greeks’ (Blakeney): cf. ‘Lydian mode’. The name attracted the poets of mid C16-mid 18, in part because it figures rather prominently in Latin lyric and satiric poetry.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Latin name mentioned in Horace; so called as coming from Lydia, in Asia Minor.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
(feminine) - modern Indiana, Vimeira, Alma.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Lid'-e-a. 1. A woman of Thyatira, a seller of purple, who dwelt in the city of Philippi, in Macedonia. Acts xvi. 14, 40. 2. A province of Asia Minor. 3. A part of Egypt, peopled by Ludim, the son of Mizraim. Jer. xlvi. 9.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: to firebrand: travailing.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Greek name, meaning: Maid from ancient Lydia.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Lydia Forename Popularity
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Sample size: 4 (2016)
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