Lydia

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle is a character from the shows "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul".

Please add Lydia Martin from Teen Wolf to the namesakes! She is awesome!

Lydia Night, frontwoman of LA punk rock band The Regrettes.

There is a Peanuts character named Lydia.

Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (1921-1943) was a fighter pilot in the Soviet air force during World War II. She was the first female flying ace, the first female in the world to shoot down an enemy aircraft, and is the highest scoring female fighter pilot to this day.

Lydia Koidula (1843-1886) is an Estonian poet.

Lydia is the youngest of the five Bennet sisters in Jane Austen’s (fictional) book, Pride and Prejudice. She is frivolous and silly, and runs off with an officer, George Wickham.

Usage: English, German (Rare), Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Literature, Popular Culture

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In Popular Culture, several main characters have used this name, including Lydia Deetz from the 1988 movie "Beetlejuice".

Aunt Lydia from 'The Handmaid's Tale'.

Lydia Taylor is the daughter of Josh and Aly of the TV documentary “Rattled”.

Lydia Renfrew is one of the four female characters in Alma De Groen's 2002 play WICKED SISTERS. She works as a real estate agent and is portrayed as superficial and self-centered, trying desperately to look younger and have an affair with a younger man after her husband left her with their two daughters for a 23-year-old woman. She has been played by Diane Craig.

Lidia Zamenhof indeed is an extraordinary woman, daughter of Dr, Zamenhof, the Esperantist who died in concentration camps in Poland 1942. Her life story is worth reading!

Lydia Marie Mackay is an American theatre actress and voice actress primarily known for her work for Funimation and OkraTron 5000. She has provided voices for a number of English versions of Japanese anime television series, films and video games.

Lydia is a fictional character in the comic series "The Walking Dead".

This reminds me of a famous steam drifter from near where I live called the Lydia Eva. It's a beautiful ship from the days of herring fishing.

Lydia Martin is the name of a main character on the TV show Teen Wolf, portrayed by Holland Roden.

In the book 18, Pete's oldest daughter's name is Lydia. She is sometimes called Liddy.

Lydia Cornell is an American actress.

Lydia (portrayed by Sara Canning) appeared as a character in the Supernatural episode "The Slice Girls" in 2012. She is remarkable for having been an Amazon and mothering the child of Dean Winchester.

Lydia was the eldest daughter of Robin Williams's character in Mrs. Doubtfire. She was often called "Lydie". I'm surprised that wasn't already on here! That's where I first fell in love with the name.

Lydia Rogers is half of the duo, The Secret Sisters.

Lydia M. Bastianich a well known TV Chef, she is an excellent Italian cook, plus I like this name :-))

Lydia Lopokova (1892-1981) was a Russian ballet dancer who married the Bloomsbury economist Maynard Keynes. She was friends with T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells and Pablo Picasso, and helped to form a national ballet company in Britain.

A famous, but fictional, bearer is Lydia Languish, who is a wealthy teenage heiress in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, a 1775 play. I also think this is a lovely name. :)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) wrote beautiful poems to his lover, Lydia, that's my reason for loving this name.

Lydia Glasher is a character in George Eliot's novel 'Daniel Deronda.'

Lydia Lankford is the name of a 1770s girl from the Sisters In Time series.

Actress Helen Mirren (The Queen; Prime Suspect) was born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff.

Famous bearer: Princess Lydia Wiazemsky.

Queen Lydia Lili'uokalani was the last reigning monarch of Hawaii.

In The Stepmom there is a character named Lydia.

Lydia Beardsall Lawrence (1851-1910) was the mother of the writer D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), who subsequently named one of his characters in his 'Sons And Lovers' novel Lydia.

Groucho Marx sang about "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" in the movie "Why a Duck" (1939). The song enjoyed some popularity. A sample of the lyrics:
Lydia The Tattooed Lady/She has eyes that folks adore so/and a torso even more so.

Oooooooh Lydia oh Lydia, say have you met Lydia, Lydia, the Tattooed Lady. She has eyes that folks adore so, and a torso even more so. Lydia oh Lydia!

By the way, it was sung in At The Circus (1939).

Lydia is the girl in the Tim Burton movie Beetle Juice, played by Winona Ryder. Man, that's such a great movie. I love Tim Burton.

In the Bible Lydia was merchant who sold purple cloth, purple was a color of wealth and royalty.

Lydia Bennet is the flirtatious, boy-crazy shopaholic in Pride and Prejudice.