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Lydia (name)

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Pronunciation
  
LID-ee-ə

Word/name
  
Greek

Gender
  
Female

Meaning
  
"from Lydia" "beautiful one" "noble one"

Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin (Greek: Λυδία, Ludía, from λυδία (ludía; "beautiful one", "noble one", "from Lydia/Persia") a feminine form of the ancient given name, Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Lydus, from λυδός (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

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"Lydia" is also a Biblical given name; Lydia of Thyatira, woman and deaconess in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles was a purple cloth dealer. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.

Variant forms

  • Lidia
  • Lidie
  • Lidija
  • Lyda
  • Lydie
  • Lydiana
  • Lydian
  • Lydiane
  • Lidya
  • Lydia
  • Ledea
  • Lydiya

    • People named Lydia

  • Lydia (born 1980), Spanish pop singer who participated at 1999 Eurovision Song Contest
  • Lydia Becker (1820–1890), British suffragette and amateur scientist
  • Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991), Cuban anthropologist and poet
  • Lydia Canaan, Lebanon-born pioneering singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and activist
  • Lydia Child (1802–1880), American abolitionist, women's rights activist, novelist and journalist
  • Lydia Cornell (born 1953), American actress, blogger and radio talk show host
  • Lydia Davis (born 1947), American author
  • Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (born 1940), Hong Kong politician
  • Lydia Echevarría (born 1931), Puerto Rican actress
  • Lydia Field Emmet (1866–1952), American painter
  • Lydia Gibson (1891–1964), American artist
  • Lydia Hatoel-Zuckerman (born 1963), Israeli foil fencer
  • Lydia Hearst (born 1984), American model and socialite
  • Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), Estonian poet
  • Lydia Kavina (born 1967), Russian theremin player and conductor
  • Lydia Ko (born 1997), Korean born New Zealand Professional Golfer
  • Lydia Lamaison (1914-2012), Argentine actress
  • Lydia Lassila (born 1982), Australian skier
  • Lydia Lazarov (born 1946), Israeli yachting world champion
  • Lydia Litvyak (1921–1943), Russian fighter pilot in World War II
  • Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (1892–1981), Russian ballerina
  • Lydia Lunch (born 1959), American No Wave singer
  • Lydia Mackay (born 1977), American actress and voice actress
  • Lydia Mei (1896–1965), Estonian painter
  • Lydia Mendoza (1916–2007), American guitarist and singer of Tejano music
  • Lydia Millet (born 1968), American author
  • Lydia Pense (born 1948), American singer
  • Lydia Pinkham (1819–1883), American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman
  • Lydia Polgreen (born 1975), American journalist
  • Lydia Shum (1947–2008), Hong Kong actress and comedian
  • Lydia Stahl (1890), a Russian espionage agent
  • Lydia Venieri (born 1964), Greek artist
  • Lydia Wahlström (1869–1954), Swedish historian, author and feminist

    • People named Lydia in fiction

  • Lydia Maxwell, character from the 1987 movie "Innerspace", portraited by Meg Ryan.
  • Lydia, a character from John Flanagan's series of novels, Brotherband.
  • Lydia Aspen, in Love for Lydia.
  • Lydia Wickham (née Bennet), a character from Jane Austen's novel, Pride & Prejudice.
  • Lydia Davis, a character from the ABC Series Revenge (TV series)
  • Lydia Deetz, a character in Beetlejuice.
  • Lydia Douce, a barmaid in the Sirens chapter of James Joyce's 20th century novel, Ulysses.
  • Lydia González, a bullfighter from Pedro Almodóvar's film, Talk to Her
  • Lydia Gwilt, the femme fatale in Wilkie Collins' novel, Armadale.
  • Lydia Hadley, mother in Ray Bradbury's short story, The Veldt.
  • Lydia Hillard, in Mrs. Doubtfire
  • Lydia Karenin, a former character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
  • Lydia King, a character in Charles Bukowski's "Ham On Rye"
  • Lydia Languish, a character in Richard Sheridan's first play, The Rivals
  • Lydia Martin, a junior political science professor working to get tenure in The Ticking Tenure Clock by Blaire French.
  • Lydia Martin, a character from MTV TV show Teen Wolf, which is based on the 1985 movie of the same name.
  • Lydia, a follower NPC in the game Skyrim
  • Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a character from Breaking Bad
  • Lydia "Lyddie" Worthen, the main character of Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson.
  • HMS Lydia, a ship captained by Horatio Hornblower in the C.S. Forester's novel The Happy Return (called Beat to Quarters in the US).
  • Lydia, Countess of Walden, a character in Ken Follett's The Man from St. Petersburg.
  • Lydia, a character from The Walking Dead comic book series

    • References

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