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How popular is the name Lydia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lydias are alive today.
Lydia (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 158th in 2025 with 317 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 1999, when 1,084 babies were given the name, the 50th most popular that year. Lydia fell out of the published rankings after 1904 and returned in 1994, a classic revival pattern. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 83,000 babies have been named Lydia in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Lydia is one spelling of a name also recorded as Lidia; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Lydia you are most likely to meet is around 28 years old. Half of all Lydias born in England and Wales are between 26 and 66, and there are at least 59,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 17% chance that at least one of them will be called Lydia.
How many babies are named Lydia each year?
Includes all spellings: Lydia, Lidia. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lydia spelling rank?
Where does the Lidia spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lydia most popular?
Lydia peaked in 1998, when 1,098 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Lydia?
At least 59,000 people named Lydia in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lydia?
Most living Lydias are between 26 and 66; the most common age is about 28.
Is Lydia becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.