How rare is the name Lady?

10,711 people in the United States have the first name Lady, about 1 in 28,198. It ranks #2,352 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

LADY

#2,352

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,711
About
1 in 28,198
This common or more
79.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,711 people named Lady, 40% reported their origin as White, 32.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 19.7% as Black. 99% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lady peaked in 2016, when 48 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18842025
Peak year
2016
Births that year
48
In 2025*
20 ▼58%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 2,068 babies have been given the name since 1884. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Lady by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #1,512. The largest share of babies named Lady, 26.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2,13526
1890s#1,73686
1900s#1,512152
1910s#2,510221
1920s#3,038248
1930s#3,397173
1940s#4,616118
1950s#5,95096
1960s#6,54298
1970s#8,192102
1980s#10,56092
1990s#10,778132
2000s#11,352170
2010s#9,487235
2020s#10,370119
Before 19016.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2726.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4513.8%
Baby boom 1946–649.5%
Generation X 1965–807.7%
Millennials 1981–968.5%
Generation Z 1997–1212.9%
2013 and later14.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Exactly as common as Lady

2 other first names also have 10,711 people.

#2,352 Joana · 10,711#2,352 Miley · 10,711

Either side of Lady

#2,351 Lin · 10,717#2,352 Joana · 10,711#2,352 Miley · 10,711#2,355 Rufus · 10,707

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lady, most common first.

#12,611 Ladd · 982#20,827 Lada · 493#33,205 Lad · 250#35,789 Ladi · 224#47,857 Laidy · 135#48,024 Laudy · 134#48,840 Laddy · 129

Also a last name

As a last name, Lady ranks #7,826 of 156,621, with 4,063 people. See Lady as a last name

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