girls:
5k births since 1880
#2405 (58th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1924
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1880
#3875 (50th percentile)
The name Lyda is the #3,875 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,963 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,405 (57.9% percentile) for all time with 4,958 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1924.
Lyda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1924 for boys). Birth data for Lyda is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lyda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lyda reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 24.1% percentile (ranked #435) with 134 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 435 births per million (ranked 17.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lyda ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lyda reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #554) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lyda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Lyda is pronounced as LAI-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-duh, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L AY1 D AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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