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Ladarrius vs Ladonna

American parents have registered 21,233 Ladonnas since 1880, against 1,227 Ladarriuses. Ladonna is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ladarrius against Ladonna, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ladarrius Ladonna

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 119 years in which either name was published, Ladonna for 89 years and Ladarrius for 30 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Ladarrius Ladonna
Total US births 1,22721,233
Most in one year 66612
Babies in 2025 56
Estimated living today 1,20017,000
Median age today 2758
Peak year 19921964
Best rank 1,395th boys391st girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th13,208th
First recorded 19781903
Girls / boys 0 / 1,22721,233 / 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 Ladonnas alive today are over 58; half the Ladarriuses are over 27. That is 31 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: Ladarrius and Ladonna.