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Ladarius vs Laddie

American parents have registered 4,548 Ladariuses since 1880, against 1,736 Laddies. Ladarius is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ladarius against Laddie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ladarius Laddie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Laddie for 66 years and Ladarius for 48 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ladarius Laddie
Total US births 4,5481,736
Most in one year 26052
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 4,400470
Median age today 2772
Peak year 19951919
Best rank 643rd boys989th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19761902
Girls / boys 0 / 4,54892 / 1,644

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Laddies alive today are over 72; half the Ladariuses are over 27. That is 45 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ladarius and Laddie.