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Lida Name Meaning, Origins & History

Lida

Pronunciation: LEE-duh

Meaning Loved by the people Origin Slavic Gender Girl
GIRLS RANK
#9,217
TREND
712
Peak Years
1918, 1915, 1916
Lowest Years
2019, 2021, 2008
Energy Archetype
Wise & Balanced

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of girls named Lida in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Lida

  • More than 5 thousand babies named Lida: U.S. records list 5,921 babies given the name Lida from 1880 through 2025.

What Does the Name Lida Mean?

Lida is a shortened form of several longer names rather than a name with one root. In English it is most often a diminutive of Lydia, a Greek name meaning "woman from Lydia." Lydia was a region in western Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. The origin of the place name itself is not securely known; it may come from an older Anatolian language rather than from Greek.

In German and Dutch, Lida is a short form of Alida, which is itself a pet form of Adelheid (Adelaide). That name is built from the Germanic elements adal, "noble," and heit, "kind" or "sort," giving the literal sense "of noble kind." Lida keeps that meaning when it stands in for Alida.

In Czech and other Slavic languages, Lída is a familiar form of Ludmila, formed from the Slavic elements lud, "people," and mil, "dear" or "gracious." Its meaning is usually given as "dear to the people."

Lida Name History & Origins

Lida developed out of the common habit of shortening longer given names in daily speech, so its history is tied to the histories of the names it shortens. Lydia entered Christian Europe through the New Testament: Lydia of Thyatira, a dealer in purple cloth in Philippi, is described in the Acts of the Apostles as Paul's first convert in Europe. Her name helped carry the place-derived name into Christian use, and shortened forms such as Lida and Lidiya followed in Greek, Russian, and other languages.

The Slavic short form belongs to the tradition around Saint Ludmila of Bohemia (about 860 - 921), grandmother of Saint Wenceslaus and the first Czech martyr. Czech speakers use Lída and Lidka as affectionate forms of Ludmila, and the same pattern appears in Slovak and Polish.

The German and Dutch Lida descends from Adelheid, the name of Saint Adelaide, the tenth-century empress and wife of Otto the Great. Alida became a common short form of Adelheid in the Low Countries and northern Germany, and Lida in turn shortened Alida.

In the twentieth century the name also appeared in English-language popular culture, as in the song "Lida Rose" from Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man (1957). The Belarusian city of Lida is a separate place name and is not the source of the personal name.

How Popular is the Name Lida?

Lida recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1918. Its best rank was #193 in 1882.

U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.

Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.

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How the Name Lida Shapes Your Personality and Life?

You always bring to completion anything you start. You are generous but like to see returns from your giving. You have an executive ability, you are a leader. You are moral, balanced, honest and intellectual, and you may attain spirituality. You are wise and practical with an appreciation of beauty. You always think before you act. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.

Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.

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