Lyda

Where Lyda comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Lyda through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #275 among girls, with 32 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #240
    43 babies named Lyda, its best rank.
  3. 1884
    Lyda Borelli born
    Italian actress
  4. 1906
    Lyda Roberti born
    actress
  5. 1953
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,595.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Lyda Borelli · Italian actress, 1884–1959
  • Lyda Roberti · actress, 1906–1938
  • Lyda Salmonová · Czech actress, 1889–1968
  • Lyda Conley · Wyandot-American lawyer, 1874–1946
  • Lyda Green · American politician, 1938–2023

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.