Lydia


Gender:
Origin: Greek
377 famous people named Lydia found on Wikipedia.
167019 female, 271 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 89-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 75-th in year 1883
Used in: Biblical, English, German

Meanings

Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin (Greek: Λυδία, Ludía, from λυδία (ludía; "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia") a feminine form of the ancient given name, Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.
"Lydia" is also a Biblical given name; Lydia of Thyatira, woman and deaconess in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles was a purple cloth dealer. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.

Ancient country of Asia Minor bordering the Aegean. It was an empire under Croesus, famous for his wealth. The name is from a supposed ancestor Ludos. The people also figure, as Ludim, in the Old Testament (Genesis x.13), which seems to have sometimes confused them with the Libyans. Related: Lydian, attested from 1540s as a noun, 1580s as an adjective, and 1570s as a musical mode.

From Lydia, region on the west coast of Asia Minor.

Famous People: 377 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Lydia Hearst-Shaw 1984 American model and actress
2 Lydia Fox
3 Lydia Wilson 1984 Actress
4 Lydia Ko 1997 South Korea-born New Zealand golfer
5 Lydia Rose Bewley 1985 Actress
6 Lydia Clarke 1923 American actress and photographer
7 Lydia Benecke 1982 German psychologist and writer
8 Lydia Guirous 1984 French politician
9 Lydia Fairchild 1976 American sufferer of Chimera
10 Lydia Lunch 1959 American singer, author and actress
11 Lydia Lozano 1960 Spanish journalist
12 Lydia of Thyatira 0100
13 Lydia Cornell 1953 Actress, writer
14 Lydia Litvyak 1921 Soviet flying ace
15 Lydia Pinkham 1819 19th century iconic concocter
16 Lydia Davis 1947 American writer
17 Lydia Gouardo 1962 French rape and torture victim
18 Lydia Maria Child 1802 American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
19 Lydia Canaan Lebanese singer-songwriter
20 Lydia Shum 1945 Hong Kong comedienne and actress
21 Lydia Hamilton Smith 1813 American woman
22 Lydia Leonard 1981 English actress
23 Lydia Loveless 1990 Singer
24 Gyges of Lydia
25 Lydia Reed 1944 Child actress
26 Lydia Bright
27 Lydia Lopokova 1892 Russian ballet dancer
28 Lydia Sherman 1824
29 Lydia Polgreen 1975 American journalist
30 Lydia Mackay 1977 American actress
31 Lydia Morgenstern 2000 German voice actress
32 Lydia Lucy 1993
33 Lydia Prenner-Kasper 1982
34 Lydia Cacho 1963 Mexican journalist
35 Lydia de Vega 1964 Athletics competitor
36 Lydia Saint Martin 1971 French pornographic actress
37 Lydia Mendoza 1916 American guitarist and singer
38 Lydia Sayeg 1967
39 Lydia Williams 1988 Australian soccer player
40 Lydia Hart
41 Lydia Darragh 1738 American spy
42 Lydia Bradey New Zealand mountain climber
43 Lydia Rood 1957 Dutch children's writer
44 Lydia Pense 1947 American musician
45 Lydia Kavina 1967 Russian musician
46 Lydia Taft 1712 American suffragist
47 Lydia Lassila 1982 Freestyle skier
48 Lydia Becker 1827 British activist
49 Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn 1940 Hong Kong politician
50 Lydia Sigourney 1791 American poet
51 Lydia Moss Bradley 1816 Peoria, Illinois philantropist: founded Bradley University, Bradley Park
52 Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa 1905 Hawaiian princess
53 Lydia Kandou 1963 Indonesian actress
54 Lydia Bob Scott 2011
55 Lydia Forson 1984 Actress, writer and producer
56 Lydia Echevarría 1931 Puerto Rican actress
57 Lydia Villa-Komaroff 1947 Cellular biologist
58 Lydia White Canadian linguist
59 Alyattes of Lydia King of Lydia
60 Lydia Koidula 1843 Estonian poet
61 Lydia Zimmermann 1966 Spanish actress
62 Lydia Greenway 1985 Cricketer
63 Lydia Simmonds
64 Lydia Shire 1948 American chef and restaurateur
65 Lydia Murdock American musician
66 Lydia Millet 1968 American writer
67 Lydia Chukovskaya 1907 Russian writer and poet
68 Lydia Mancinelli 1936 Italian poet, actor and writer
69 Lydia Foy 1947 Irish activist
70 Lydia Cabrera 1900 Afro-Cuban poet
71 Lydia Fairen 1989
72 Lydia Dean Pilcher 2000 American film producer
73 Lydia Ainsworth
74 Lydia Kavraki Greek computer scientist
75 Lydia R. Diamond 1969 American playwright
76 Lydia Bilbrook 1888 British actress
77 Lydia Gromyko 1911 Spouse of Soviet leader Andrey Gromyko
78 Lydia Mokgokoloshi 1939 South African actor
79 Lydia Lamaison 1914 Actress
80 Lydia 1980 Spanish singer
81 Lydia Cecilia Hill 1913 British dancer
82 Lydia Tomkiw 1959 American poet
83 Lydia Woodward American television producer and writer
84 Lydia Nicole 1959
85 Lydia Field Emmet 1866 American artist
86 Lydia Natalia 1969
87 Lydia Bosch 1963 Actress
88 Lydia Brown Autistic disability rights activist
89 Priscian of Lydia Philosopher
90 Lydia Délectorskaya 1910
91 Lydia Goehr 1960 American academics
92 Lydia Alfonsi 1928 Italian actress
93 Lydia Sarfati American businessman
94 Lydia Jordan 1994 American actress
95 Lydia Flem 1952 Belgian writer, psychoanalyst and photographer
96 Lydia Sokolova 1896 British dancer
97 Lydia Mordkovitch 1944 Russian-born British violinist
98 Lydia Chichester du Pont 1907 American philanthropist
99 Lydia Nsekera 1967 Burundian sports official
100 Lydia Stahl 1890 American spy for the Soviet Union
101 Lydia T. Black 1925 Ukrainian American anthropologist
102 Lydia Aran 1921 Professor emerita:Hebrew University of Jerusalem/scholar of Buddhism
103 Lydia Pasternak Slater 1902 Russian chemist, poet and translator
104 Lydia Daher 1980 German author
105 Lydia Adelheid Hellenbrecht 1844
106 Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo 1878
107 Lydia Brandner
108 Lydia Venieri 1964 Greek artist
109 Lydia Cheah Li Ya 1989 Badminton player
110 Lydia Artymiw American musician
111 Lydia Kelly 1990 British actress
112 Lydia Yeamans Titus 1857 Australian actress, singer
113 Lydia Lithell 1909
114 Lydia Folger Fowler 1823 British physician
115 Lydia Emily American artist
116 Lydia Denker 1982 German singer
117 Lydia Cappolicchio 1964 Swedish journalist
118 Lydia Huber 1943
119 Lydia Funke 1982
120 Lydia Bennet Pride and Prejudice character
121 Lidija Ossipowna Dan 1878
122 Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman 1963 Fencer
123 Lydia Cheromei 1977 Kenyan marathon runner
124 Lydia Yu-Jose 1944 Filipino academic
125 Lydia Kay Griggsby 1968 Attorney
126 Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal 1866 Russian writer
127 Lydia Welti-Escher 1858 Swiss Maecenas
128 Lydia Sherwood 1906 British actress
129 Lydia Peelle American short story writer
130 Giota Lydia 1934
131 Lydia Emerencia 1954
132 Lydia Knott 1866 Actress
133 Lydia Brasch 1953 Nebraska politician
134 Lydia Chagoll 1931 Dutch dancer and film director
135 Lydia Sargent 1942 American feminist
136 Lydia Katjita 1953 Namibian politician
137 Lydia Lloyd-Henry 1996 British actress
138 Agron of Lydia King of Lydia
139 Lydia Longley 1674 Canadian nun
140 Lydia Vandenbergh 1984 Association footballer
141 Lydia Lipkowska 1882 Singer
142 Lydia Hall 1987 Welsh golfer
143 Lydia Roppolt 1922 Austrian painter
144 Lydia Thompson 1992
145 Lydia Wideman 1920 Finnish cross-country skier
146 Lydia Simmons British politician
147 Meles of Lydia King of Lydia
148 Lydia Harambourg 1947
149 Lydia Mutsch 1961 Luxembourgian politician
150 Lydia Andrei French actress
151 Lydia Shackleton 1828 Irish botanical artist
152 Lydia Hartl 1955 German psychologist
153 Lydia Oulmou 1986 Algerian volleyball player
154 Lydia Johnson 1896 Singer
155 Lydia Potechina 1883 Russian actress
156 Lydia B. Echauz Filipino University president
157 Lydia Gottschewski 1906
158 Lydia P. Jackson 1960 American politician
159 Lydia Nnenna Obute 1993 Austrian female model
160 Lydia Méndez Silva Puerto Rican politician
161 Lydia Verbeeck 1948 Belgian writer
162 Lydia Blume
163 Lydia Sellon 1821 British founder of the Society of the Most Holy Trinity
164 Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt 1859 American pathologist and anatomist
165 Lydia Sarunrat 1987 Thailand's R&B idol phenomenon
166 Lydia Manon 1982 Figure skater
167 Lydia Campbell 1818 Writer
168 Lydia Mischkulnig 1963 Austrian author
169 Lydia Rubio Ferrer 1946 Cuban artist
170 Lydia Kwa 1959 Canadian writer and psychologist
171 Lydia Wevers 1950 New Zealand writer
172 Lydia Emelie Gruchy 1894
173 Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner 1871 American biologist
174 Lydia Boylan 1987 Cyclist
175 Lydia Foote 1843 English actress
176 Lydia Hedberg 1878 Swedish writer
177 Lydia Shuleva 1956 Politician
178 Lydia Mei 1896 Estonian artist
179 Lydia Wahlström 1869 Swedish suffragist
180 Lydia Marinelli 1965 Austrian historian
181 Lydia Lazarov 1946 Yachting orld champion
182 Lydia Caruana Singer
183 Lydia Jele 1990 Batswana sprinter
184 Lydia Gibson 1891 American artist
185 Lydia Elizabeth Hall 1864 Canadian Methodist evangelist
186 Lydia Hüskens 1964 German politician
187 Lydia Hernandez American politician and a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives
188 Lydia Giberson 1899
189 Lydia Chassaniol 1950
190 Lydia MacDonald 1926 Scottish singer
191 Lydia Artigas Peña 1938
192 Lydia Poser 1909 German politician
193 Lydia Schénardi 1952 French politician
194 Lydia Fowler Wadleigh 1817 American educator
195 Lydia Makhubu 1937 Swazi chemist
196 Lydia Rotich 1988 Kenyan distance runner
197 Lydia Cuestas 1983
198 Lydia Netzer American writer
199 Lydia Weiss 1939 Austrian actress
200 Lydia Reid American politician