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Lydia

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Greek Λυδια (Lydia) = 'of Lydia (ancient region of western Asia Minor)' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Lidia ♀
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Lidija ♀
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 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Lidya ♀ Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Liidia ♀
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 Finish
Lydia ♀
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 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Lydía ♀
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 Icelandic
Lýdia ♀
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 Faroese
Lýdía ♀
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 Icelandic
Lydie ♀
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 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Lida, Lidi, Lidda, Livli (Sami), Lydianna, Lüder, Lutsîa (Greenlandic), Lyydia (Finnish)
For male forms see Lydian

Combinations

For combinations see LYDIA (name element)

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lydiuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Lydiudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lydia
Genitive: Lydias
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Lydia
Accusative: Lydiu
Dative: Lydiu
Genitive: Lydiu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lydia
Genitive: Lydian
Partitive: Lydiaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Lydia
Accusative: Lydiu
Dative: Lydiu
Genitive: Lydiu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lydia
Genitive: Lydias
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lydia
Genitive: Lydias

Name Days

Norway Norway

13 December

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

23 May

Sweden Sweden

3 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Lydia Katarina Wahlström (28 June 1869 - 2 June 1954), Swedish historian, author and feminist

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 13866
n.a.
 13866 0 0
Sweden Sweden[12]
1798 3945 1798 3945 0 0
Denmark Denmark[13]
685
n.a.
 685
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
25 105
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
17 21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
783
n.a.
 783
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Lydia (f) Sources: [12][13][16][11]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Lydia (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Lydia (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Lydia (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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