Lady is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Lady in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lady in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lady by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lady ranks at #4,938. That means there are 4,937 more common girls 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 Lady.
Lady is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1972, where the name Lady was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Lady and were born in the USA in 1972 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Lady even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1900, it ranked on position 678 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lady was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Even though the popularity of the name Lady has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 22 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #4,947 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 22 girls named Lady, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Lady'.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Lady are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Lady is registered in 10 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia or Kentucky. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Lady live in Mississippi, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 71,298 would turn around if you called the name Lady across Mississippi.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lady is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lady 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 Lady, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lady
Lady
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
D
Y
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
Y
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. Lady sounds like this:
