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How popular is “Lydia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lydia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lydia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lydia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lydia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lydia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lydia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lydia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 302 0.001498878 302 100%
1881 299 0.001551731 299 100%
1882 342 0.001543788 342 100%
1883 378 0.001742369 378 100%
1884 369 0.001515643 369 100%
1885 404 0.001677365 404 100%
1886 392 0.001535352 392 100%
1887 448 0.001810891 448 100%
1888 472 0.001576097 472 100%
1889 496 0.001716584 496 100%
1890 576 0.001911075 576 100%
1891 507 0.001768566 507 100%
1892 522 0.001561126 522 100%
1893 598 0.001838738 598 100%
1894 618 0.001824677 618 100%
1895 656 0.001868839 656 100%
1896 580 0.00162245 580 100%
1897 642 0.001850373 642 100%
1898 677 0.001774783 677 100%
1899 566 0.001668465 566 100%
1900 644 0.001430291 644 100%
1901 507 0.001466115 507 100%
1902 540 0.001396312 535 5 98%
1903 502 0.001316894 502 100%
1904 545 0.001350732 545 100%
1905 518 0.001221923 518 100%
1906 477 0.001113313 477 100%
1907 512 0.001100153 512 100%
1908 499 0.001021183 499 100%
1909 503 0.000983913 503 100%
1910 537 0.000909074 537 100%
1911 568 0.000881607 568 100%
1912 701 0.00070947 701 100%
1913 759 0.000667482 759 100%
1914 839 0.00059237 839 100%
1915 1086 0.000592657 1086 100%
1916 1148 0.00059346 1148 100%
1917 1180 0.000588015 1180 100%
1918 1148 0.000528762 1148 100%
1919 1059 0.000501837 1059 100%
1920 1123 0.000496322 1118 5 99%
1921 1052 0.000450631 1052 100%
1922 1025 0.000447763 1025 100%
1923 966 0.000419547 966 100%
1924 917 0.000385034 912 5 99%
1925 954 0.000408863 954 100%
1926 813 0.000354109 813 100%
1927 883 0.000380709 876 7 98%
1928 820 0.000362681 815 5 99%
1929 750 0.000342128 745 5 99%
1930 692 0.000311251 687 5 99%
1931 646 0.000306978 646 100%
1932 630 0.000298396 630 100%
1933 668 0.000334092 668 100%
1934 632 0.000304312 632 100%
1935 679 0.000324896 669 10 97%
1936 695 0.000334524 688 7 98%
1937 696 0.000326658 687 9 97%
1938 677 0.000305978 677 100%
1939 685 0.000310877 680 5 99%
1940 731 0.000317456 726 5 99%
1941 692 0.000284023 682 10 97%
1942 859 0.000314443 854 5 99%
1943 871 0.000308585 864 7 98%
1944 807 0.000299991 807 100%
1945 856 0.000322665 856 100%
1946 886 0.000277282 886 100%
1947 1050 0.000291479 1050 100%
1948 1222 0.000353945 1222 100%
1949 1241 0.00035612 1241 100%
1950 1127 0.000321691 1127 100%
1951 1150 0.000312183 1150 100%
1952 1327 0.000349394 1327 100%
1953 1560 0.000404812 1560 100%
1954 1559 0.000391639 1559 100%
1955 1585 0.000394762 1585 100%
1956 1550 0.000375936 1545 5 99%
1957 1627 0.000387183 1621 6 99%
1958 1583 0.000382931 1577 6 99%
1959 1566 0.000376624 1561 5 99%
1960 1676 0.000403485 1670 6 99%
1961 1574 0.000379982 1574 100%
1962 1416 0.000350897 1411 5 99%
1963 1296 0.000327422 1291 5 99%
1964 1183 0.0003043 1183 100%
1965 1086 0.000299549 1079 7 99%
1966 959 0.000275919 954 5 99%
1967 877 0.000258329 877 100%
1968 863 0.000255445 863 100%
1969 807 0.000232209 807 100%
1970 929 0.000257589 924 5 99%
1971 845 0.000246187 845 100%
1972 760 0.000241808 753 7 98%
1973 677 0.000224403 677 100%
1974 722 0.0002375 722 100%
1975 676 0.000223886 669 7 98%
1976 747 0.000246185 747 100%
1977 765 0.000240832 765 100%
1978 713 0.000224647 708 5 99%
1979 808 0.000242861 803 5 99%
1980 867 0.000251705 862 5 99%
1981 940 0.000271725 940 100%
1982 1056 0.000301029 1051 5 99%
1983 1029 0.000297112 1024 5 99%
1984 1209 0.000346542 1201 8 99%
1985 1220 0.000341822 1220 100%
1986 1142 0.00032105 1129 13 98%
1987 1220 0.000338361 1210 10 98%
1988 1174 0.000317723 1174 100%
1989 1267 0.000329566 1262 5 99%
1990 1406 0.000355726 1406 100%
1991 1378 0.000353763 1378 100%
1992 1414 0.000368107 1414 100%
1993 1420 0.00037663 1420 100%
1994 1603 0.000431186 1603 100%
1995 1759 0.000480318 1759 100%
1996 1813 0.000497094 1813 100%
1997 1937 0.000534234 1937 100%
1998 2071 0.000563046 2071 100%
1999 2189 0.000592604 2189 100%
2000 2321 0.000614037 2321 100%
2001 2364 0.000631513 2364 100%
2002 2511 0.000671697 2511 100%
2003 2645 0.000695628 2645 100%
2004 2649 0.000693288 2633 16 99%
2005 2790 0.000725647 2783 7 99%
2006 2673 0.00067565 2668 5 100%
2007 2772 0.000693402 2772 100%
2008 2875 0.000731428 2875 100%
2009 2830 0.000740804 2830 100%
2010 2845 0.000769805 2839 6 100%
2011 3090 0.000844772 3090 100%
2012 3175 0.000868111 3175 100%
2013 3266 0.000895858 3261 5 100%
2014 3652 0.000985329 3652 100%
2015 3512 0.000948955 3512 100%
2016 3622 0.000987271 3622 100%
2017 3346 0.000935631 3339 7 100%
2018 3212 0.000913565 3212 100%
2019 3014 0.000868354 3014 100%
2020 2809 0.000840873 2803 6 100%
2021 2931 0.000865125 2931 100%
2022 2815 0.000832069 2815 100%
2023 2729 0.000824174 2729 100%
2024 2663 0.00080006 2663 100%

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