Ladawna — girls' name
284 babies named Ladawna in U.S. Social Security records since 1959, with the highest year being 1983. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Ladawna was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Ladawna in 1983 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ladawna
The Social Security Administration has registered 284 babies named Ladawna between 1959 and 1989, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ladawna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1989. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ladawna performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ladawna shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ladawna in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ladawna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 284 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Ladawna at a glance
Last recorded 1989Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ladawna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–1959
- Peak year (1983)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 31 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1989.
284 total births across 31 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1983 with 16 births in a single year.
Ladawna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 96 births that decade — 34% of Ladawna's all-time total
Ladawna decade highlights
- Peak decade 96 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Ladawna's strongest decade
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Ladawna by state
Where Ladawna concentrates geographically — total births since 1959
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 1.8% |
5 of 284 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Oklahoma 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Oklahoma accounts for 1.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1959–1989 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.