Ladena
Ladena was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 430 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ladena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ladena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,675, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1970, the peak
Ladena peaked in 1970, when 19 girls were given it, #3,367 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #14,675 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,448 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,155 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,611 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,943 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,292 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,667 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,607 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,769 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,699 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 9 | #7,018 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,084 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,212 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,934 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,033 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,547 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,698 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,409 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,307 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,367 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,531 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,892 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,207 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,332 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,335 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,047 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,140 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,093 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,387 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,042 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,341 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,829 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,718 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,423 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,960 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,463 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,107 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,307 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,528 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,643 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,017 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,329 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,908 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,002 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,990 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,588 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,045 | 5.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,405 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ladena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ladena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ladena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ladena, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Ladena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 50 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 375 people named Ladena (373 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 382 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,603 babies since 1880, Ladena is the third most given (1.8% of them).
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 Ladena
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 Ladena and names like it
- Compare Ladena and LadonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLadena peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ladena since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Ladena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ladena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.