Given name · also Germanic
Lidwina
“a friend to all”
Lidwina is used as a given name. One Scandinavian interpretation is “a friend to all.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “a friend to all.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Lidwina is a feminine form of Lidwin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1905. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lidwina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 66
- 0 boys · 66 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lidwina’s family of names
Lidwina is a feminine form of Lidwin. Lidwina has a related form in Lidweana. Lidwina has a related form in Lidweena.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lidwina
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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