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Hydia

Gender
Girl
Say it
HY-dee-a
Origin
Modern

Hydia is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Hydia come from?

Modern: modern respelling, perhaps influenced by Lydia

Is Hydia a girl's or a boy's name?

Hydia is a girls' name.

How popular is Hydia in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Hydia in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 1999, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 44 in 19962002
Hydia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
200212#8,274
20019#10,095
200011#8,527
199931#3,800
199811#8,011
19979#9,012
199644#2,756
19956#11,778
199416#5,707
19935#13,435

Names like Hydia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Hydia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hydia, updated 20 October 2026.