Lydia

Lydia meaning

Lydia is a Christian and international girl's name of Greek origin.

A Lydian woman, from Lydia in Asia Minor

Also used to mean: woman from Lydia, beautiful one

Lydia is a Greek name meaning "a Lydian woman". Strong's Concordance explains the New Testament Ludia as the feminine of Ludios, a Lydian, a person from the kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. In the Acts of the Apostles (chapter 16) Lydia is a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira who hears Paul preach by the river at Philippi, is baptised with her household, and opens her home to the missionaries; she is often described as the first Christian convert in Europe. Name lists give "woman from Lydia" and also "beautiful one" or "noble one"; those last two are not senses given by Strong's.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), Greek Dictionary of the New Testament, G3070 · entry Ludia · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Strong's Greek 3070, Ludia (Bible Hub) · Acts 16 (KJV, Bible Hub) · Wikipedia, Lydia (name)

Famous namesakes

• Lydia of Thyatira, Paul's convert at Philippi (Acts 16)

Popularity abroad

• #92 United States, girls 2025 (up 5 from 97 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #158 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Lydia · Lidia

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