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Ladarius

#5,130 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ladarius has been given to 4,548 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,130 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 260 recorded.

Babies named Ladarius, 2025

1 in 174,000

Ladarius over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ladarius: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ladarius means

Ladarius is a given name.

The naming story behind Ladarius

Wikidata records Ladarius as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q115465640, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,548 boys were recorded with the name Ladarius between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 260 in 1995; its best national rank was #644 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,172 in 2020 to #5,130 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,627 in 2015 to #5,130 in 2025.

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 Ladarius?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,130
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ladarius sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ladarius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ladariuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ladarius was born before 1998 — so the typical Ladarius is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,548
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (2,182).

Is Ladarius 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
−1,098
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,958
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,503
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1995 (260)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#644
1995

Spellings of Ladarius

Ladarius is not the most common spelling — Darius is, with 70.9% against Ladarius's 6.0%.

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 Ladarius is used

Across 1910–2025, Ladarius was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 21,490 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

028 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,571
  2. 2Alabama1 in 4,762
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 6,250
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 25,000
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ladarius has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ladarius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,130
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,958
Best rank ever
#644
1995
Peak year
1995
260 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,548
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Ladarius

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

LadarriusIgnatiusOctaviusAloysiusLaderiusDemariusJamariusAureliusDamariusJadariusTiberiusDarriusKadariusLaderriusCassiusDemitriusClaudiusJuniusJavariusAdariusMariusKassiusDontaviusKendarius

Names with a curve like Ladarius

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ladarius, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DequanDavonteDakotahDillionTaylerNajeeTreDejonDeonteDemonteDylonJavonte

Sibling names for Ladarius

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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