Librada
Feminine · “freed”
Librada is a Spanish past participle used as a woman's name, and what it says of the child is that she has been freed. Its first letters also open a Latin word that looks related and is not — the one behind the pound sign and the abbreviation for a pound weight.
How old is the name Librada?
Librada first appears in US birth records in 1898 — 127 years ago. The typical Librada alive today was born around 1932, making them about 93 years old. About 200 people named Librada are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Librada most popular?
Librada peaked in 1906, reaching #1229 nationally. See the whole 1906 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Librada
The pound sign is a letter L. It stands for libra, the Roman unit of weight, whose full name was libra pondo — a pound by weight — and English took the noun from pondo while taking the abbreviation from libra, which is why the word and the symbol have nothing in common. The same libra gives lb for the weight, the Italian lira, and the constellation of the scales. It has no connection whatever to liber, free, which gives liberty, liberal, deliver and this name; the two Latin words merely begin alike. A library is from a third root again, liber meaning the inner bark of a tree and then a book. Three unrelated Latin words, one set of opening letters, and centuries of people assuming a connection.
Meaning
freed
From the Spanish librar, to free or to deliver, and behind it the Latin liber, free. The English gloss is a translation of an ordinary word rather than an etymology recovered from anything: Spanish gives participles and abstract nouns to daughters directly.
Pronouncing Librada
lee-BRAH-dah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle, which is where Spanish puts it by default. English speakers often say LIB-ra-da instead, which moves the weight forward.
Nicknames for Librada
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
- 1898
- Most girls named
- 192725 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1229reached in 1906
- Change vs 1994
- 0.0%5 in 1998, 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.
Librada in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Librada in Spanish — same name
- Liberata in Portuguese — related form
Libradas among us
people named Librada 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
Librada 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
- The meaning is transparent to any Spanish speaker without explanation.
- Middle stress on three syllables is the easiest rhythm English offers.
- Every letter is said, so the spelling follows from the sound.
- Liberada, Liberata and Librado will all be written for it.
- English speakers move the stress forward, which changes the name.
- It is an ordinary Spanish word, so it is read as a word first.
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- How many Libradas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Librada are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Librada in 2025?
- Librada is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Librada will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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