Lida

Where Lida comes from

The dictionaries list Lida as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1868
    Lida Heymann born
    German feminist, editor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #219 among girls — 49 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #190
    73 babies named Lida — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1943
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,395.
  5. 1973
    Lida Abdul born
    Afghan-American video and performance artist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Lida Heymann · German feminist, editor, 1868–1943
  • Lida Abdul · Afghan-American video and performance artist, born 1973
  • Lida Barrett · American mathematician, 1927–2021
  • Lida Voorhees · American tennis player, 1864–1934
  • Lida Moser · Photographer, 1920–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.