Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Lidiya isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lidiya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 134
- 0 boys · 134 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,051 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lidiya’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lidiya
- Lydia LitvyakSoviet flying ace1921–1943
- Lidiya Skoblikovaspeed skaterborn 1939
- Lydia Lipkowskasinger (1884–1958)1882–1958
- Lidiya VertinskayaSoviet actress (1923–2013)
- Lidiya SeifullinaRussian writer (1889-1954)
- Lidiya AlfeyevaSoviet long jumper (1946–2022)
- Lidiya PonomarenkoUkrainian local historian, cartographer (1922-2013)
- Lidiya TseraskayaRussian astronomer (1855–1931)
- Lidiya SmirnovaSoviet and Russian actress (1915–2007)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.