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Ladawn vs Ladora

American parents have registered 1,568 Ladawns since 1880, against 549 Ladoras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ladawn Ladora

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 84 years in which either name was published, Ladawn for 58 years and Ladora for 26 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Ladawn Ladora
Total US births 1,568549
Most in one year 8014
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,400340
Median age today 5258
Peak year 19711960
Best rank 1,336th girls3,357th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19361915
Girls / boys 1,568 / 0549 / 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 Ladoras alive today are over 58; half the Ladawns are over 52. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ladawn and Ladora.