Lady

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lady is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 647◐
  • COColombia1 in 2.2K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈40K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
153 ●

69K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 647 ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lady is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#67339,84532K rec.——Lady56
CO Colombia#24928,5154.8K rec.—27Lady119
EC Ecuador#34326,148△218 rec.1 in 64726KLady35
PH Philippines—13,1292.2K rec.——Lady68
US United States—10,601△2.2K rec.1 in 31K11KLady153
AR Argentina—8,8666.9K rec.—5Lady47
VE Venezuela—7,9674.1K rec.—1.9KLady35
MX Mexico—4,6283.2K rec.—7Lady80
CL Chile#9814,299195 rec.—2Lady41
BR Brazil—2,0874.9K rec.1 in 101K2.2KLady81
CR Costa Rica#4259732K rec.1 in 5.2K973Lady24
SE Sweden—144△7 rec.1 in 71K144—5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish147K52%
  • English74K26%
  • Portuguese40K14%
  • Indonesian5.5K2%
  • French2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish147,03352%
English73,52026%
Portuguese39,58814%
Indonesian5,4742%
French1,9821%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lady is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name96K records spelled Lady9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Philippines, United States, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Làdy, Lãdy, Lády, Lädy

  • Indonesian given name6.6K records spelled Lady3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Lady

  • French given name2.8K records spelled Lady9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Congo - Kinshasa, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Làdy, Ladÿ, Lådy, Lädÿ, L̶a̶d̶y̶

  • Hindi given name815 records spelled Lady23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Khmer

    Also written Ladi, Ládi, Ledi, লেডি, Lãdî

  • Thai given name593 records spelled Lady12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, Laos, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written พระสุน, พระสน, พระสุนี, พีระสิน, พระสิน

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lady 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 English, habitational name for someone from Lad in Borsod county or Lad in Somogy county.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Spanish, lady (wife of a lord; important woman)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, The mistress of a household.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, nyapo mama

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In French, lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British)

    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.

Over time●

020406019001950200048 · 2016

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Lady in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18846
18887
188913
18906
18916
18927
18937
18948
18959
189611
18978
189813
189911
190025
190113
19029
190311
190415
190514
190615
190717
190812
190921
191014
191110
191221
191325
191423
191526
191624
191726
191823
191929
192030
192128
192228
192322
192428
192525
192623
192720
192824
192920
193010
193124
193216
193313
193413
193518
193617
193725
193818
193919
194016
194112
194211
194310
194411
19458
194616
194714
194811
19499
195014
195111
195210
19539
19548
19557
19569
19577
195811
195910
196012
19619
196210
19637
196412
196513
19669
196710
19689
19697
19705
197116
197314
197411
19759
19769
197718
197812
19798
19809
198112
198213
19838
19845
198512
19869
19877
19889
19898
199011
199116
199215
199313
199412
199512
199614
199712
199811
199916
200017
200110
200212
200317
200424
200519
200620
200720
200814
200917
201025
201116
201216
201321
201416
201511
201648
201724
201830
201928
202021
202117
202222
202321
202418
202520

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 138 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Lady Lee Phillips, b. 1887Lady Rojas Benavente, b. 1948Lady Camones, b. 1975Diana Trujillo, b. 1981Nelly Cuadros, b. 1981Lady Bardales, b. 1982Braelynn Llamoca, b. 2002

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●

Attested in 55 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Lady
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202426K#73
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#2,352
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.1K#7,826
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.2K#5,613
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—2.2K#2,613
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2K#4,959
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.9K#882
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#22,196
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,675
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—973#564
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—144#6,636

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 577 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lady?
We estimate roughly 40 thousand people bear Lady (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Lady have the most bearers?
Lady is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled lady.
Where is Lady most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lady is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 647 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
How common is Lady compared with other names?
In Peru, Lady is the 673rd most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
Is Lady a male or female name?
Lady is a female 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.
What does the name Lady mean?
Recorded meaning: from Middle English lady ‘lady’, ‘female head of a household’, hence a nickname for a woman who was ladylike or the head of a household or for an effeminate man.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Lady” — the 673rd most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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