Lada

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Girl · Old Slavic

Lada

Say it: LAH-dah

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Meaning

Old East Slavic lada 'beloved, spouse'; the claimed goddess Lada appears only in late, doubtful sources.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

A 20th-century revival name; scholars doubt that a pagan goddess Lada really existed.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

100 babies given this name since 1970
At its height in 2012, about 1 in 159,900 girls
Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Russian Czech Croatian

The family of the name

Other spellings: Лада

Czech	Lada
Croatian	Lada

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Where this comes from

Well-known works of literature
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

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