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Laddie vs Lady

American parents have registered 2,068 Ladys since 1880, against 1,736 Laddies. Lady is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Laddie against Lady, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Laddie 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 139 years in which either name was published, Lady for 89 years and Laddie for 50 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Laddie Lady
Total US births 1,7362,068
Most in one year 5248
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 4701,100
Median age today 7228
Peak year 19192016
Best rank 989th boys3,326th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,917th
First recorded 19021884
Girls / boys 92 / 1,6442,068 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Laddies alive today are over 72; half the Ladys are over 28. That is 44 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: Laddie and Lady.