Làdy

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Làdy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. nickname from Middle English lavedi, levedi, ladi ‘lady, female head of a household, woman, wife’ (Old English hlǣfdige).

  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 5.9K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ecuador (measured from records)

26,148 people, 2024

Record sources
138 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 647 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lady in EC Ecuador, US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. nickname from Middle English lavedi, levedi, ladi ‘lady, female head of a household, woman, wife’ (Old English hlǣfdige). As a man’s name it may have been used in mockery, or be short for occupational names such as Ladyman . Compare Johanne Ladyknave, 1379 in Poll Tax (Lubenham, Leics). Further information: Though rare in modern Britain this name is thriving in the USA.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Làdy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Làdy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador—26,1481 in 64726KLady6
US United States—10,7111 in 31K11KLady27
BR Brazil—2,0871 in 101K2.2K——
VE Venezuela—1,8511 in 15K1.9K——
CR Costa Rica—9731 in 5.2K973——
UY Uruguay—5761 in 5.9K576——
CD Congo - Kinshasa#806———Lady7

26,148 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Làdy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lady, Lãdy, Lády, Lädy

  • Spanish given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Colombia, Philippines, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Lady, Lådy, Lâdy, Ládý, Lãdy

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Làdy under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Làdy mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England and. nickname from Middle English lavedi, levedi, ladi ‘lady, female head of a household, woman, wife’ (Old English hlǣfdige). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
Is Làdy a male or female name?
Làdy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Làdy have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Làdy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lady.
Where is Làdy most common?
Làdy is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 647 people carrying it.
How common is the name Làdy?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,148 people named Làdy in 2024, about 1 in 647 residents.
How common is Làdy compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Làdy is the 806th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Làdy” — the 806th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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