Lida is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Lida in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lida in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lida by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lida ranks at #7,997. That means there are 7,996 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lida.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lida annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lida who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lida have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Lida even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record of rank #186 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lida was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lida has never been ranked higher than #186. In 2022, she rivaled the 6,651 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 14 girls named Lida were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lida were born, there have been 18 newborns who received this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Lida are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Lida is registered in 19 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois or Kansas. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Lida live in Kentucky, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 11,015 would turn around if you called the name Lida across Kentucky.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lida is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lida and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lida, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lida
Lida
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
I
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lida sounds like this:
