Lady
Lady reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 3,326, and has been recorded 2,068 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,917th. About 1,100 Ladys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lady
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,068
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 3,326th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,917th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Ladys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,068 babies given the name since 1884, about 1,100 are alive — 54 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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.
Notable Ladys
- Lady Gaga (born 1986)American singer, songwriter, and actress
- Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554)Queen of England and Ireland in July 1553
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007)First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
- Lady Godiva (born 990)Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester
- Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (born 2003)noblewoman; daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828)English writer
- Lady Sarah Chatto (born 1964)Member of the British royal family
- Lady Pamela Hicks (1929–2026)noblewoman; British aristocrat and memoirist
People named Lady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lady is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lady is most concentrated in Mississippi (9.3×), Tennessee (7.6×), Texas (4.6×), California (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Lady peaked:
Lady elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Lady | 113 | 2,460th |
| France girls | Lady | 100 | 6,667th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lady among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lady | 7 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lady against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.