Lada
Lada was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lada by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lada mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lada is “a female given name from Czech.”
/ˈlɑːdə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lada?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,539, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2012, the peak
Lada peaked in 2012, when 11 girls were given it, #10,101 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,539 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,007 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,469 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,370 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,553 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,001 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,979 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,101 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,923 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,124 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,558 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,195 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,585 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,605 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,652 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lada a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lada has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lada: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lada, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Lada and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 493 people named Lada (471 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lada rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,273 babies since 1880, Lada is the second most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Lada (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lada
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lada and names like it
- Compare Lada and LadyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLada peaked in 2012.
- Czech namesWiktionary’s origin for Lada: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Lada.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lada alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.