Ladell
Masculine
Ladell is given to both — 1,023 boys and 433 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
The back of this name is an English word for a small wooded valley. A dell is smaller than a dale and deeper than a hollow, it is nearly always wooded, and the word has been in the language since before the Conquest — surviving now mostly in place names and in the phrase about a farmer in one.
How old is the name Ladell?
Ladell first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Ladell alive today was born around 1975, making them about 50 years old. About 800 people named Ladell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ladell most popular?
Ladell peaked in 1969, reaching #1861 nationally. See the whole 1969 chart.
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Where it comes from
From an Old English word for a small wooded valley to Ladell
Our story of Ladell
It is worth pausing on how many words English has for a hollow in the ground. Dale and dell are Germanic; combe is British, taken from the people who were here first; glen and gill are Norse and Gaelic; dene is Old English; cwm is Welsh and got into English through mountaineering. Each arrived with a different population and each kept a slightly different sense, and the result is that an English speaker describing a valley has half a dozen words available, all of them precise and most of them now only surviving inside place names. Names like this one are among the last places these words are still doing work.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is one of the productive American elements of the last century and carries no meaning. The back may be the English word, may be a clipping of Odell or Cordell, and may simply be a sound. English has a remarkable number of words for a small valley — dell, dale, dene, combe, cwm, glen, gill, clough — most of which came from different languages and each of which describes a slightly different shape of ground.
How the name formed
- an Old English word for a small wooded valley
- dell survives in place names and surnames
- an American front element becomes productive
- Ladell appears in the record in the 1910s
- peaks at the end of the 1960s
Related forms: Ladelle · Odell
Pronouncing Ladell
luh-DEL
Two syllables with the stress at the back. The first syllable is unstressed to the point of having no vowel of its own.
Nicknames for Ladell
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
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 196018 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1861reached in 1969
- Change vs 2018
- +20.0%6 in 2022, from 5
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.
Ladell in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ladelle in English — spelling variant
- Odell in English — related form
Ladells among us
people named Ladell are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Ladell sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Dell is available inside it as a short form and an ordinary English word.
- It works for a child of either sex, and the record carries it on both sides.
- It is read correctly at sight and holds no surprises.
- There is no meaning for the compound and no origin outside the pattern.
- It will be heard as Odell and Adell by people meeting it once.
- It is closely dated to the middle decades of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ladells are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Ladell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ladell in 2025?
- Ladell is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Ladell with classmates?
- Ladell will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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