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Ladd

About 1,329 American babies have been named Ladd since 1915, most of them around 1961. In 2025 it ranked 4,050th. About 1,000 Ladds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Ladd

By the numbers

Total US births
1,329
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
48
Peak year
1961
Best rank
1,279th
Rank in 2025
4,050th
First recorded
1915

How old the living Ladds are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,329 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ladd is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1961

The most popular boys’ names the year Ladd peaked:

All the names of 1961

Related names

Ladd against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.