The surname Lyda
A surname, carried by 2,034 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,034 people named Lyda in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,792 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,060.
#14,631
rank among US surnames
2,034
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
-1.3%
change since 2000 (was #13,530)
Who is named Lyda
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Lyda identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
- Two or more races 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lyda has the Soundex code L300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L300.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lyda?
- 2,034 people in the United States had the surname Lyda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,792 Americans. It ranked 14,631st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lyda?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Lyda identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Lyda getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,034 in 2010, down 1.3%.