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Ladarius vs Ladean

American parents have registered 4,548 Ladariuses since 1880, against 573 Ladeans. Ladarius is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ladarius Ladean

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 105 years in which either name was published, Ladean for 56 years and Ladarius for 49 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ladarius Ladean
Total US births 4,548573
Most in one year 26020
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 4,400280
Median age today 2771
Peak year 19951961
Best rank 643rd boys2,752nd girls
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19761913
Girls / boys 0 / 4,548568 / 5

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 Ladeans alive today are over 71; half the Ladariuses are over 27. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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