Ladas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a seller of olive oil, from ladi ‘oil’ (classical Greek eladion, pet form of elea ‘oil’) + the occupational suffix -as
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɑdəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ladas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 921K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 44K
- GRGreece≈1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
361 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Λαδας in GR Greece.
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)
occupational name for a seller of olive oil, from ladi ‘oil’ (classical Greek eladion, pet form of elea ‘oil’) + the occupational suffix -as.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ladas 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 361 | 1 in 921K | 385 | Ladas | 153 |
| GR Greece | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 4 | Λαδας | 56 |
| DE Germany | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 824K | — | Ladas | 29 |
| AU Australia | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Ladas | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 512K | — | Ladas | 32 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Ladas | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Ladas | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Ladas | 10 |
361 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ladas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Greek, from a pet form of the personal name Ladomer (from the form Ladamer), Hungarian form of Slavic Vladimir.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Pig. Ladas (žr.) ir lenk. Ladowski (SSNO III 307)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latin, a famous runner of Classical Greece, whose name became a proverb for swiftness.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of lada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, Plg. Lūdas (žr.) ir lenk. Zadowski (SSNO III 307).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hristos Ladasb. 1891GRGreek politician
- Stephen Pericles Ladasb. 1898GRGreek diplomat and jurist (1898-1976)
- Alexandros Ladasb. 1909GRGreek politician
- Georgios Ladasb. 1913CYCypriot politician (1913–1997)
- Ioannis Ladasb. 1920GRGreek politician and military officer (1920–2010)
- Alice K. Ladasb. 1921USAmerican psychologist and psychotherapist
- Panagiotis Ladasb. 1994GRGreek footballer
- Ally Ladasb. 1997AUAustralian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 385 | #57,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 361 | #56,588 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 348 | #55,237 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ladas mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a seller of olive oil, from ladi ‘oil’ (classical Greek eladion, pet form of elea ‘oil’) + the occupational suffix -as. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Ladas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɑdəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ladas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 361 people named Ladas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ladas.
- How common is the name Ladas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 361 people named Ladas in 2010, about 1 in 921 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ladasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ladas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.