Ladu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ladu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 590K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 703K
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.2M
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 590K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ladu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 590K | — | Ladu | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Ladu | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | — | 5 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 26M | 174 | Ladu | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Ladu | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 49 | — | — |
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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Ladu 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 Czech, dative/locative singular of lado
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, warehouse, storehouse, store
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, to peel, pare, skin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mkj, male servant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kea, side
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)
- Tarquinio Ladub. 1926ITItalian physician (1926-2011)
- Sandro Ladub. 1932ITItalian politician (1932-2018)
- Giorgio Ladub. 1942ITItalian politician (1942–2020)
- Salvatore Ladub. 1945ITItalian politician (1945–2017)
- Silvestro Ladub. 1949ITItalian politician
- Salvatore Ladub. 1958ITItalian jockey
- Alain LaduFRFrench politician
- Felix LaduSSHealth Advisor for the state of Central Equatoria
- Micheli LaduSardinian writer, researcher and TV presenter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 174 | #108,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 113 | #136,783 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 49 | #18,963 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Is Ladu a male or female name?
- Ladu is a male 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 Ladu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 363 people named Ladu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ladu.
- How common is the name Ladu?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Ladu, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ladu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laduThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ladu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.