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Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin Λυδια. The name means woman from Lydia.Lydia is a name in the Bible. Lydia was a woman of God; she loved to hear God’s word and put it into action. She also sold purple clothing. In those days purple was seen as rich and royal. 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.