Lady

Where Lady comes from

Lady hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #930 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #724
    13 babies named Lady — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,210.
  4. 1948
    Lady Rojas Benavente born
    Peruvian-Canadian university professor
  5. 1975
    Lady Camones born
    Peruvian politician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lady Camones · Peruvian politician, born 1975
  • Lady Rojas Benavente · Peruvian-Canadian university professor, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.