Ladora — girls' name
549 babies named Ladora in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
18% of everyone ever named Ladora was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Ladora in 1960 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ladora
The Social Security Administration has registered 549 babies named Ladora between 1915 and 1998, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ladora currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ladora performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Ladora shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. 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 Ladora in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ladora 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 549 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.
Ladora at a glance
Last recorded 1998Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ladora popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–1915
- Peak year (1960)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 84 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1998.
549 total births across 84 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1960 with 14 births in a single year.
Ladora by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 100 births that decade — 18% of Ladora's all-time total
Ladora decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 78 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Ladora's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Ladora by state
Where Ladora concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.9% |
5 of 549 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Oklahoma 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Oklahoma accounts for 0.9% 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, 1915–1998 (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.