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Lidia

From Greek, the name means "woman from Lydia," a region of the ancient world. It rings familiar in Poland today, still given often enough to sit near 140th among girls' names.

Lidia Pronunciation

Lidia is pronounced LEED-yah (/ˈlidja/).

Alive in 2025
82,176
Newborns 2025
402
National rank
#137
Next name day
27 March
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What Lidia means

Where Lidia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Lidia comes from the Greek Lydia, a region in western Asia Minor. The word means, quite literally, a woman from Lydia. Long before it was a first name, it named a place.

The most documented early bearer is the Lydia of the Book of Acts, a dealer in purple cloth from Thyatira who became the first person baptized in Europe. Her trade tied her to the same region the name points to. In Poland the imieniny fall on the third of August, and Lidia appears on class registers and urząd forms without any need for explanation.

The name keeps a small family. The variant Lida runs plainer and shorter. Lidka is the diminutive, the form a grandmother might use. Each one points back to the same Greek root, the same woman from Lydia.

When Lidia celebrates name day

Lidia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 27 March.

Next name day
27 March
Saturday in 2027
Next one in 153 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Lidia

1 in 274 women in Poland is named Lidia. 82,176 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #137 among female names.

People with the name Lidia 2019 → 2025
82,176 −1,966 since 2019
2020 84,061 −81
2021 83,744 −317
2022 83,206 −538
2023 83,109 −97
2024 82,647 −462
2025 82,176 −471

Lidia's popularity over time

402 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #125 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2003.

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402 newborns with the name Lidia in 2025
national rank #125 that year

Where parents choose Lidia

Lidia is most popular in Podlaskie, 259% above the national average (367 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+59%) and Pomeranian (+37%). It is least common in Opole and Holy Cross, 60% and 58% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Podlaskie
    +259%
    1 in 179 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    +59%
    1 in 406 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +37%
    1 in 469 babies
Chosen least
  • Opole
    −60%
    1 in 1,589 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −58%
    1 in 1,540 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −55%
    1 in 1,445 babies

Lidia as a middle name

Lidia is a first name for 82,176 women in Poland and a middle name for another 34,633, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 63rd, between Klaudia (34,636) and Aniela (33,616).

As a first name
82,176
As a middle name
34,633
first name 70% middle name 30%
Middle-name ranking women

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