Lidija

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Lydia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey)

Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree

  • Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as female
  • United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
  • Norway (SSB): listed as female
  • Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/lîːdija/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary

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Lidija is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, 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 120as Лідія
  • MDMoldova1 in 130as Lidia

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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈450,000 named Лидия, est.

#90 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
519 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 436 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ЛидияCyrillic(measured from records)
LidiaLatin(measured from records)
לידיהHebrew(measured from records)
ΛυδιαGreek(measured from records)
ลิเดียThai(measured from records)
ልድያEthiopic(measured from records)
ლიდიაGeorgian(measured from records)
리디아Hangul(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lidia in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, PY Paraguay and 1 more, Lydia in US United States, NG Nigeria, 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)

Cited for this meaning 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.

Where Lidija is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#52≈450,000 est.≈1 in 317register #20Лидия188
UA Ukraine#34≈310,000 est.≈1 in 121listedЛідія54
NG Nigeria#344≈190,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Lydia86
MX Mexico#117≈170,000 est.≈1 in 7691KLidia174
US United States#386139,560as Lydia1 in 2.4K139KLydia519
AR Argentina#133≈120,000 est.≈1 in 38736Lidia102
MD Moldova#7325,849as Lidia1 in 13026KLidia29
PY Paraguay#89≈17,000 est.≈1 in 412—Lidia36
HR Croatia#1159,6891 in 4369.7KLidija94

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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lidija is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Lidiją, Līdija

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Lidiǰa

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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)
1800185019001950Liliuokalani, b. 1838Helen Mirren, b. 1945Lydia Davis, b. 1947
  • Liliuokalanib. 1838USnot in their usual namemonarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
  • Helen Mirrenb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1945)
  • Lydia Davisb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (born 1947)

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)
InformalBok Lidija,Hi Lidija, (English)

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)

43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

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).
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.
How do you pronounce Lidija?
In Croatian /lîːdija/ (Wiktionary).
Is Lidija a male or female name?
Lidija is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Norway (SSB): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
Which countries have the most people named Lidija?
Mondonomo estimates about 454 thousand people named Лидия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Nigeria, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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 2026-10-13.

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