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Lada

Girls' name

Possibly maiden, woman, wife

Lada has been given to 106 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Lada, 2022

1 in 564,000

Lada over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lada: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly maiden, woman, wife

Czech

What Lada means

Lada may mean “maiden, woman, wife”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lada is used in Slavic Mythology, Czech, Russian and Croatian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈla.da/ and /ˈɫa.də/ for Lada.

Origin, language, and formation

Lada is used in English and Czech. Its origins include Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lada is pronounced /ˈlɑːdə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 106 girls were recorded with the name Lada between 1970 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2012; its best national rank was #8,652 in 1970.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lada?

Lada had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lada sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ladas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lada was born before 2012 — so the typical Lada is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
106
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Lada rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (11)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,652
1970

Spellings of Lada

Lada is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 18.0% against Lada's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lada around the world

Where Lada ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Lada by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,652
1970
Peak year
2012
11 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
106
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lada

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KadaLadyeHadaLadanLaddieLadajaLadreaLadyLadineMawadaLadonLadinaGhadaLadeneJhadaVladaLadonneLadaviaLadejaSadaLadelleLadajahLadanaAjada

Sibling names for Lada

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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