Ladon is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Ladon in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ladon in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Ladon by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Ladon ranks at #5,430. That means there are 5,429 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ladon.
While Ladon is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1970, the name Ladon reached its highest popularity with #1,119 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Ladon. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Ladon.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ladon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 12 babies were born with the name Ladon. This puts the name in rank 5,849 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 13,452,167 newborns was named Ladon that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Ladon has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The first name Ladon is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 73 Americans in total bear this name. And these 73 men are located in only five states: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ladon and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Ladon in relation to it’s male population is Alabama. And yet even there, only one in 85,888 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Ladon present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Ladon is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Ladon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ladon, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Dinosaur
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ladon
Ladon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
D
O
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
D
O
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ladon sounds like this:
