Lada
A Slavic name meaning "maiden" or "wife". Fewer than 500 women in Poland carry it and no girls have been given it this century, so meeting one would stay with you.
Lada Pronunciation
Lada is pronounced LAH-dah (/ˈlada/).
What Lada means
Where Lada comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Lada rises from Slavic roots, and its oldest sense gathers around three plain words: maiden, woman, wife. In the early layers of the language it named a woman ready to marry, an oblubienica, and later a żona. That range tells you how the name was once heard.
Slavic wedding songs kept a refrain close to the sound of it, and folk collectors noted the syllable turning up in bridal verses. Whether the name grew out of those songs or the songs borrowed the name is a question scholars still weigh. The meaning stayed anchored to the bride either way.
Lada is short. Three letters do the work.
On a class register or an official form at the urząd, the name reads plainly, with no diminutive and no variant to soften it. It has stayed close to its beginning, holding the old sense of a woman ready to marry.
How many people are named Lada
1 in 51004 women in Poland is named Lada. 442 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1407 among female names.
Lada as a middle name
Lada is a first name for 442 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4957th, between Kyriaki (3) and Laia (3).
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#4955 Kyla3
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#4956 Kyriaki3
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#4957 Lada3
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#4958 Laia3
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#4959 Laima3