Lidija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Lydia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lidija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 436(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 121as Лідія
- RURussia≈1 in 327as Лидия
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 Lidija 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #90 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 519 (measured from records)
- 1 in 436 (inferred from the name graph)
≈430,000 named Лидия, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lydia in US United States, NG Nigeria, Lidia in AR Argentina, MD Moldova, Лидия in RU Russia and Лідія in UA Ukraine.
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)
Lydia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lidija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #52 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 327 | #20 | Лидия | 188 |
| UA Ukraine | #34 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | listed | Лідія | 54 |
| US United States | #386 | 139,560as Lydia | 1 in 2.4K | 139K | Lydia | 519 |
| NG Nigeria | #344 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Lydia | 86 |
| AR Argentina | #133 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 36 | Lidia | 102 |
| MD Moldova | #73 | 25,849as Lidia | 1 in 130 | 26K | Lidia | 29 |
| HR Croatia | #115 | 9,689 | 1 in 436 | 9.7K | Lidija | 94 |
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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Lidija is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Lydia (Biblical figure)
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)
- Liliuokalanib. 1838USnot in their usual namemonarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
- Lydia Koidulab. 1843EEnot in their usual nameEstonian poet (1843-1886)
- Lidia Ruslanovab. 1900RURussian-Soviet singer (1900-1973)
- Lydia Litvyakb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet flying ace
- 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)
- 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 9.7K | #109 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 8.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #22,349 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #22,349 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2 | #6,129 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lidija mean, and where does it come from?
- Lydia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lidija a male or female name?
- Lidija 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.
- What are other forms of the name Lidija?
- In the etymology graph, Lidia, Lydia and Lydie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lidija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 434 thousand people named Лидия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lidija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lidija is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 436 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lidija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 9,689 people named Lidija in 2021, about 1 in 436 residents.
- How common is Lidija compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lidija is the 52nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lidijaThe 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, “Lidija” — the 52nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.