Ladra
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bark; barking (sound made by dog)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɑdɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ladra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 88K
- CZCzechia1 in 91K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
straw chute (part of a chaff cutter where straw is placed)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ladra is read(measured from records)
Ladra 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.
- English52%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ladra in English.
- Spanish29%
bark; barking (sound made by dog)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish12%
straw chute (part of a chaff cutter where straw is placed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Ladra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Ladra | 20 |
| PL Poland | 433 | 1 in 88K | 218 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 238 | 1 in 210K | 238 | Ladra | 46 |
| CZ Czechia | 117 | 1 in 91K | 117 | — | — |
| US United States | 102 | 1 in 3.3M | 116 | Ladra | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 35 | 1 in 97K | 35 | Ladra | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | 15 | 1 in 140K | 15 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Ladra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, female equivalent of ladrón (“robber, thief”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, female equivalent of ladrão
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, to rob, steal, thieve
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)
- Jack Ladrab. 1933USAmerican baseball player (1933-)
- Antonio Ladrab. 1956UYUruguayan journalist, writer, and artist
- Lukáš Ladrab. 1966CZCzech publicist
- Lois Ladrab. 1972ESSpanish anthropologist and archaeologist
- Tomáš Ladrab. 1997CZCzech association football player (1997-)
- Manuel Ladra GonzálezESDoctor Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 1984
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 238 | #14,458 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 238 | #14,438 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 218 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 218 | #15,163 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 215 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 215 | #15,081 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 117 | #14,483 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 117 | #7,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 116 | #145,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 35 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Ladra come from?
- straw chute (part of a chaff cutter where straw is placed) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ladra?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɑdɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ladra mean?
- In Spanish, bark; barking (sound made by dog)
- In which country does Ladra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Ladra in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ladra.
- How common is the name Ladra?
- In Poland, the national register counted 433 people named Ladra in 2026, about 1 in 88 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ladra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ladraThe 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, “Ladra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.