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Ladarrius vs Lady

American parents have registered 2,068 Ladys since 1880, against 1,227 Ladarriuses. Lady is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ladarrius against Lady, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ladarrius 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 109 years and Ladarrius for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Ladarrius Lady
Total US births 1,2272,068
Most in one year 6648
Babies in 2025 520
Estimated living today 1,2001,100
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19922016
Best rank 1,395th boys3,326th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th5,917th
First recorded 19781884
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2272,068 / 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: Ladarrius and Lady.