Lady
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: lady (wife of a lord; important woman)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/laði/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lady is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 647(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.3K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 647 (inferred from the name graph)
26,148 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lady is read(measured from records)
Lady is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
lady (wife of a lord; important woman)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from Lad in Borsod county or Lad in Somogy county.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The mistress of a household.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nyapo mama
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
- Portuguese5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lady in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lady 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #333 | 26,148 | 1 in 647 | 26K | Lady | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Lady | 69 |
| CO Colombia | #269 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 27 | Lady | 124 |
| PE Peru | #606 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Lady | 64 |
| US United States | — | 10,711 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Lady | 165 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 973 | 1 in 5.2K | 973 | — | 24 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Lady is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lady Lee Phillipsb. 1887Socialite
- Lady Rojas Benaventeb. 1948CAPeruvian-Canadian university professor
- Lady Camonesb. 1975PEPeruvian politician
- Diana Trujillob. 1981COnot in their usual nameColombian aerospace engineer
- Nelly Cuadrosb. 1981PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Lady Bardalesb. 1982PEPeruvian police officer
- Braelynn Llamocab. 2002PEnot in their usual namePeruvian 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 59 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 26K | #73 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,352 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 973 | #564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 110 | #2,352 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 78 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 27 | #94 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Lady come from?
- from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Lady a male or female name?
- Lady 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.
- How do you pronounce Lady?
- A machine transcription gives /laði/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Lady mean?
- In Spanish, lady (wife of a lord; important woman)
- In which country does Lady have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Lady, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lady.
- Where is Lady most common?
- Lady is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 647 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Lady?
- In the etymology graph, Ladie and LadyE are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lady?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 26,148 people named Lady in 2024, about 1 in 647 residents.
- How common is Lady compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Lady is the 333rd most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ladyThe 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, “Lady” — the 333rd most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.