Lida
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Lidia
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lida/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the 19th most common given name.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 3.4K
- GRGreece≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lida itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,164,876 named Linda, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Linda in SE Sweden, GR Greece, Latha in US United States and Lāta in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Lidia.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lida counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,164,876as Linda | 1 in 286 | 1.2M | Latha | 188 |
| SE Sweden | — | 52,786as Linda | 1 in 193 | 53K | Linda | 18 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 16,322as Linda | 1 in 656 | 16K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 14,943as Linda | 1 in 366 | 48K | — | 6 |
| CO Colombia | #393 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 25 | Lida | 108 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9,622as Linda | 1 in 610 | 9.6K | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 7,884as Linda | 1 in 239 | 7.9K | Lāta | 6 |
| PY Paraguay | #394 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Lida | 22 |
| GR Greece | #19 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Linda | 70 |
1,164,876 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling linda. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the co-datosgov-candidates register; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lida is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swedish, to suffer; to undergo hardship
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, read (an instance of reading)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, feminine singular of lido
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to pass, elapse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lydia Maria Childb. 1802USnot in their usual nameAmerican abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
- Liliuokalanib. 1838USnot in their usual namemonarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
- Lydia Koidulab. 1843EEnot in their usual nameEstonian poet (1843-1886)
- Lydia Clarkeb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and photographer (1923-2018)
- Lydia Alfonsib. 1928ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1928–2022)
- Helen Mirrenb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1945)
- Linda Huntb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Lydia Davisb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (born 1947)
- Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Bullerb. 1948GBnot in their usual nameformer Director General of MI5 (born 1948)
- Tina Arenab. 1967AUnot in their usual nameAustralian singer, songwriter and television personality
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,298 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 334 | #3,297 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 202 | #5,205 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 162 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 130 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 128 | #1,063 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 109 | #1,496 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65 | #4,298 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 52 | #1,894 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 25 | #96 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lida mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante de Lidia. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Lida a male or female name?
- Lida is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Lida?
- A machine transcription gives /lida/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lida have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Linda, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lida?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,164,876 people named Linda in 2020, about 1 in 286 residents.
- How common is Lida compared with other names?
- In Greece, Lida is the 19th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lida?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lidaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lida” — the 19th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.