Lydia
Lydia is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Noble woman of Lydia.
What Lydia means
Noble woman of Lydia.
Lydia sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Lydia comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Lydia is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Lydia?
You will not find Lydia in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Lydia
We group Lydia under scripture and Noble — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Lydia
These share Lydia's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Lois — Most desirable; superior.
- Damaris — Gentle; a calf.
- Genesis — Origin; the beginning.
- Rhoda — Rose.
- Theo — Gift of God; divine.
- Theodore — Gift of God.
- Andrew — Manly and brave.
- Eugene — Well-born; noble.
- Evander — Good man; strong.
- Peter — Rock; stone.
- Stephen — Crown; garland.
- Timothy — Honouring God.