Loida
Feminine
Loida is the Spanish form of a Greek name that appears exactly once in the New Testament, and it reaches American records almost entirely through Spanish-speaking Protestant families. The translation that put it there was made by a man who spent his life one step ahead of the Inquisition.
How old is the name Loida?
Loida first appears in US birth records in 1933 — 92 years ago. The typical Loida alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 600 people named Loida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Loida most popular?
Loida peaked in 1963, reaching #3176 nationally. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lois to Loida
Our story of Loida
Casiodoro de Reina was a monk in a Spanish monastery that turned Protestant, fled when the Inquisition moved in, and spent the next twelve years in Geneva, London, Antwerp, Frankfurt and Basel, working on a complete Spanish Bible while being pursued by agents and accused of everything his enemies could think of. He published it in Basel with a bear on the title page, which is why it is known by the printer's device. A colleague revised it a generation later and the revised text became the standard Spanish Protestant Bible, still in use four centuries on. Its distribution across Latin America is the reason a set of minor scriptural names — including this one, which occurs in a single verse — became ordinary given names in Spanish-speaking families while remaining almost unknown in Catholic ones.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek name has never been explained. It appears once, with no context that would help, and the glosses offered — agreeable, better, desirable — are guesses built backwards from other Greek words. The Spanish form inherits the blank exactly.
How the name formed
- Lois
- Loida
Related forms: Lois · Loide
Pronouncing Loida
LOY-dah
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The oi is a Spanish diphthong here and says oy, which is also what an English reader would guess.
Nicknames for Loida
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1933
- Most girls named
- 197517 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3176reached in 1963
- Change vs 2022
- −16.7%5 in 2023, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Loida in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lois in English — same name
- Loide in Portuguese — same name
Loidas among us
people named Loida are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Loida sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Five letters with no silent ones make it simple to write and spell aloud.
- It reads correctly on sight in both Spanish and English.
- The route by which it reached American families is genuinely documented.
- Lois and Loyda will both be written for it.
- It is closely tied to one religious tradition, which some families want and others do not.
- The name's meaning has never been established, so there is nothing to give.
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Frequently asked
- How many Loidas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Loida are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Loida in 2025?
- Loida is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Loida will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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