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Ladarius vs Lady

American parents have registered 4,548 Ladariuses since 1880, against 2,068 Ladys. But in 2025 it was Lady that was commoner, 20 babies to 19.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ladarius Lady

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 138 years in which either name was published, Lady for 94 years and Ladarius for 44 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Ladarius Lady
Total US births 4,5482,068
Most in one year 26048
Babies in 2025 1920
Estimated living today 4,4001,100
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19952016
Best rank 643rd boys3,326th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045th5,917th
First recorded 19761884
Girls / boys 0 / 4,5482,068 / 0

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.

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 Lady.