girls:
21.2k births since 1903
#997 (83rd percentile)
overall:
21.2k births since 1903
#1753 (77th percentile)
The name Ladonna is the #1,753 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,227 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 77.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #997 (82.6% percentile) for all time with 21,227 births since 1903.
Ladonna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (first recorded for girls in 1903). Birth data for Ladonna is available in 115 out of the 119 years between 1903 and 2021. 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.
For girls, Ladonna reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 52.8% percentile (ranked #353) with 342 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 342 births per million (ranked 52.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ladonna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ladonna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.3% confident that Ladonna is pronounced as luh-DAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-DAW-nuh, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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