Ladona
Ladona was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 721 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ladona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ladona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,449, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1970, the peak
Ladona peaked in 1970, when 24 girls were given it, #2,892 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #14,449 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,557 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,194 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,094 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,135 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,712 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,575 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,117 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,433 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,312 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 13 | #5,069 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,316 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,327 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,165 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,713 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,201 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,316 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,892 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,700 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,523 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,456 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,892 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,571 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,713 | 11.6 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,701 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,396 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,050 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,483 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,642 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,399 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,499 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,897 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,241 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,581 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,121 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,384 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,492 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,922 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,056 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,149 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,221 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,844 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,299 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,365 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,602 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,130 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,684 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,920 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,313 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,051 | 8.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,591 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,316 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,334 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,737 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,104 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,198 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,871 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,457 | 5.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,743 | 6.7 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,527 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,176 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,366 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ladona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ladona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ladona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ladona, and how old are they?
An estimated 508 Americans named Ladona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 611 people named Ladona (610 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
How common is the spelling Ladona?
Ladona is a less common spelling of Ladonna: SSA has recorded 721 Ladona and 21,233 Ladonna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,603 babies since 1880, Ladona is the second most given (3.1% 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 Ladona
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 Ladona and names like it
- Compare Ladona and LadonnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLadona peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ladona since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Ladona.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ladona alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.