Ladarrius
Masculine · “he who holds firm the good”
Inside Ladarrius is a Persian king. Darius ruled an empire that stretched from the Aegean to the Indus, built the road system that held it together, and left inscriptions carved into a cliff face explaining, in three languages, how he came to the throne. The doubled r and the added front syllable are American; the name in the middle is twenty-five centuries old.
How old is the name Ladarrius?
Ladarrius first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Ladarrius alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 1,200 people named Ladarrius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ladarrius most popular?
Ladarrius peaked in 1992, reaching #1395 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,613 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
Where it comes from
From Dārayavauš to Ladarrius
The story of Ladarrius
The name comes into European languages through Greek historians writing about the Persian wars, and into English through the Bible, where a Darius appears in the books of Daniel and Ezra. It stayed rare in America until the second half of the twentieth century, when Darius became a genuinely popular name, particularly among African American families, and the doubled-r spelling and the prefixed forms grew alongside it. Ladarrius belongs to that moment and to the Deep South in particular: it is a name with an ancient center, a modern frame, and a very specific geography.
Meaning
he who holds firm the good
Darius is the Greek writing of Old Persian Dārayavauš, a compound meaning something close to holding firm the good — a throne name rather than a birth name, chosen to say what the king intended to do. The elements added around it in the American form carry sound rather than sense.
How the name formed
- Dārayavauš
- Dareios
- Darius
- Darrius
- Ladarrius
Related forms: Dariush · Dareios · Darío
Pronouncing Ladarrius
luh-DAR-ee-us
Four syllables, with the weight on the second. The doubled r marks a short first vowel in Darrius, keeping it closer to DARE than to DAR-ee for most speakers, though both are heard.
Nicknames for Ladarrius
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 199266 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1395reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ladarrius in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dariush in Persian — related form
- Dareios in Greek — transliteration
- Darío in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee.
Ladarriuss among us
people named Ladarrius are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Ladarrius
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ladarrius
- #12008
- Ladarrius on the 2025 chart
- #904
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ladarrius went to 5 boys in 2025, but Ladarius is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 24, which makes it the 904th most-given boys’ name of the year — 11,104 places above the chart.
- Ladarius19
- Ladarrius5
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 341,615 for Ladarrius itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Aram test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ladarrius's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aram climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aram's path sketches the road Ladarrius is walking now.
Ladarrius sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Ladarrius beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ladarrius in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The center of the name is genuinely ancient and has a documented, unusually specific meaning.
- It shortens to a full standing name rather than to a fragment.
- The stress is fixed by the shape, so it is rarely mispronounced even when misspelled.
- Nine letters and four syllables is a lot on a form and a lot in a classroom.
- Ladarius, LaDarrius and Ladarious all compete, and every version will appear on something official.
- The prefix is read by some people as a marker of region and background, which is a real thing to weigh rather than to dismiss.
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Masculine · #12008 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Ladarriuss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Ladarrius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ladarrius?
- Ladarrius is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ladarius is the more common one — 19 births in 2025 against 5 for Ladarrius.
- How popular is the name Ladarrius in 2025?
- Ladarrius ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ladarrius?
- About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Ladarrius — 5 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ladarrius with classmates?
- Ladarrius will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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