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Ladan

Girls' name

Nasturtium

Ladan has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2001, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Ladan, 2021

1 in 565,000

Ladan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ladan: meaning, origin, and history

Nasturtium

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ladan means

Ladan means “nasturtium”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ladan is used in Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Ladan between 1977 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2001; its best national rank was #7,546 in 2001.

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.

How common is Ladan?

Ladan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ladan 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ladan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ladans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ladan was born before 2002 — so the typical Ladan is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Ladan 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 2001 (14)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,546
2001

Spellings of Ladan

Ladan is not the most common spelling — Ada is, with 23.6% against Ladan's 0.05%.

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.

Where Ladan is used

Across 1910–2025, Ladan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 296,168 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ladan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ladan around the world

Where Ladan 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,611
    in 2001

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

Ladan 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
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Best rank ever
#7,546
2001
Peak year
2001
14 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ladan

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

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Sibling names for Ladan

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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