girls:
323 births since 1933
#5393 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1930
#3368 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1930
#6182 (20th percentile)
The name Ladon is the #6,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,564 recorded births since 1930. This represents the 20.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,368 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,241 births since 1930. For girls, it ranks #5,393 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 323 births since 1933.
Ladon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1930 (1930 for boys and 1933 for girls). Birth data for Ladon is available in 91 out of the 94 years between 1930 and 2023 (89 years for boys and 41 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ladon has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ladon were boys.
For boys, Ladon reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #635) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ladon ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 34.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ladon reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #755) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ladon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ladon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Ladon is pronounced as luh-DAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-duhn, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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