Lydie

Where Lydie comes from

Lydie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,036 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1895
    Peak, #986
    11 babies named Lydie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1948
    Lydie Salvayre born
    French writer
  5. 1952
    Lydie Polfer born
    Luxembourgish politician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lydie Salvayre · French writer, born 1948
  • Lydie Polfer · Luxembourgish politician, born 1952
  • Lydie Denier · actress, model, born 1964
  • Lydie Schmit · Luxembourgish politician, 1939–1988
  • Lydie Dooh-Bunya · Cameroonian journalist, writer and feminist, 1933–2020

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.