Leida
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Leida by the numbers
Leida was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 16 babies in 1976, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Leida
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Leida. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Leilanight, dark beauty1,400 in the US (2017)
- Leiaweary; a form of leah1,151 in the US (2017)
- Leinalei garland; flower wreath20 in the US (2017)
- Ledawoman from Lydia5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lidafrom Lydia; a form of Lydia3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Leibaheart; a form of leib or lev5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Leida
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