Ladonna
Ladonna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,139 among girls’ names; 21,233 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,400 Americans named Ladonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 49 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ladonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ladonna?
#14,139 among girls’ names, 2025
Ladonna fell from #9,848 in 2015 to #14,139 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.7 per million.
612 babies in 1964, the peak
Ladonna peaked in 1964, when 612 girls were given it, #392 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,139 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,594 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,446 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,175 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,838 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,470 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,773 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,848 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,745 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,678 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,868 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,888 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,077 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,534 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,465 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,265 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,639 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,413 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,643 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,189 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,582 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,265 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,830 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,925 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,084 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,802 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,871 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,126 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,935 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,742 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 129 | #1,264 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 152 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 166 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 193 | #879 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 228 | #760 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 283 | #650 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 286 | #623 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 267 | #644 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 302 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 307 | #601 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 312 | #595 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 304 | #592 | 0.19 |
| 1978 | 285 | #599 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 289 | #596 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 306 | #555 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 353 | #506 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 359 | #490 | 0.24 |
| 1973 | 444 | #435 | 0.30 |
| 1972 | 503 | #398 | 0.33 |
| 1971 | 478 | #440 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 546 | #415 | 0.31 |
| 1969 | 533 | #413 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 584 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1967 | 560 | #388 | 0.34 |
| 1966 | 439 | #445 | 0.26 |
| 1965 | 555 | #393 | 0.31 |
| 1964 | 612 | #392 | 0.32 |
| 1963 | 527 | #422 | 0.27 |
| 1962 | 570 | #404 | 0.29 |
| 1961 | 513 | #434 | 0.25 |
| 1960 | 529 | #422 | 0.26 |
| 1959 | 528 | #412 | 0.26 |
| 1958 | 378 | #493 | 0.19 |
| 1957 | 418 | #463 | 0.20 |
| 1956 | 458 | #425 | 0.23 |
| 1955 | 337 | #502 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 355 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 329 | #470 | 0.17 |
| 1952 | 337 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1951 | 328 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 322 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 290 | #473 | 0.17 |
| 1948 | 319 | #446 | 0.19 |
| 1947 | 299 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 263 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1945 | 170 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1944 | 192 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1943 | 207 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1942 | 208 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1941 | 174 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 171 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1939 | 158 | #530 | 0.14 |
| 1938 | 178 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 182 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1936 | 165 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 140 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 161 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 170 | #486 | 0.17 |
| 1932 | 143 | #547 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 158 | #525 | 0.15 |
| 1930 | 132 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 118 | #639 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 106 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 88 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 79 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 51 | #1,104 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 51 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,717 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,197 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,022 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,936 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ladonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ladonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 116 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ladonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ladonna, and how old are they?
16,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 21,233 Americans ever recorded as Ladonna. The median Ladonna alive today is 59 years old; half are between 49 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 15,996 people named Ladonna (15,984 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,643 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 934 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,110 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 327 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 77 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ladonna born?
The states with the most babies named Ladonna are Oklahoma, Illinois and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 1,739 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Illinois | 1,684 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 1,595 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 1,186 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 1,173 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 1,074 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Missouri | 1,007 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Kentucky | 753 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 656 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 624 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Ladonna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ladonna is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 5.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ladonna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,509 babies since 1880, Ladonna is the most given (90% 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 Ladonna
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 Ladonna and names like it
- Compare Ladonna and LadonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLadonna peaked in 1964.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ladonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Ladonna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ladonna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.