Girls' name · since 1966
Ladonya
215 babies named Ladonya in U.S. Social Security records since 1966, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,079 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 215
- born since 1966
- 1970s
- peak decade
Ladonya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 215 have been recorded since 1966.
Ladonya has 215 recorded births among girls since 1966, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1966 to 1995.
- #19,079 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 215 born since 1966
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ladonya ranks #19,079 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 215 born since 1966, peaking in the 1970s.
- #19,079 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 215
- born since 1966
- 1970s
- peak decade
Ladonya's 215 recorded births place it above 73.59% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ladonya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Ladonya's SSA record in two at 1978 and the more recent half accounts for 43% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 57%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1967, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1979 peak of 17, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Ladonya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1966–1995
- Peak year (1979)
- 17
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Ladonya by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (117 births, 54% of the file).
1970s was Ladonya's strongest decade.
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Ladonya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 28
1960s
28 births
- 1970s
1970s
117 births
- 1980s
1980s
49 births
- 1990s 21
1990s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 117 births (54% of all-time use).
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- Ladonya's decade-level peak was the 1970s (117 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ladonya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1979)
Similar record span (~29 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1966–1995 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ladonya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.