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Good name if you want your kid to be bullied.
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For some reason I really like this name, though I know on an actual person it wouldn't work very well.
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Since I brought up this name to Mike for inclusion in late 2019 (https://www.behindthename.com/bb/baby/5064983), I occasionally had thoughts about whether I had provided enough information about this name and whether I brought up a general picture of how it came to be, so after more digging, here's what I will say about the name now and bear in mind, this comment is going to get long:
The name Lady (and its variants like Leidy or Leydi) was already in use before Diana married then Prince Charles and was growing a bit in usage by the 1960s and 1970s in some Latin American countries where it was used, though the event did of course lead to a further rise. About the variants, there are only a couple of countries where Lady is the most popular spelling (Ecuador being one of them). For others, phonetic variants are the most popular spellings.
The rise depended on the country and also the variant used (compare Lady in Ecuador to, say, Leydi in Mexico or Lady + variants in Argentina where it's more uncommon). It also impacted usage of the name Lady in the Philippines and Brazil.
Speaking of Brazil, looking up at its numbers from the 2010 census data, Lady was already in use there before the 1930s, though of course it peaked in the 1980s. The number of living persons named Leidy, on the other hand, didn't reach 20 or over in a given decade until the 1950s:
Lady: 100 (before '30), 126 (30s), 123 (40s), 138 (50s), 139 (60s), 202 (70s), 847 (80s), 363 (90s), 163 (00s)
Leidy: less than 20 (before '30), less than 20 (30s), less than 20 (40s), 30 (50s), 44 (60s), 80 (70s), 340 (80s), 216 (90s), 75 (00s)
Searching up the variant Ladi leads to a slightly different result: the name peaked in the 1960s, had a significant male minority and was mainly used in the southern states as opposed to Lady/Leidy where, taking the whole population into account, it is more evenly spread out.
Basing off of that, it might be reasonable to assume that the majority of Ladys born in the first half of the 20th century were born in the south.
With regards to the rise caused by Diana's death, the only country where I can find definitive proof of this being the case is Ecuador. Searching up FamilySearch records for births and baptisms from the second half of the 1990s in Guatemala and Colombia, the results I found are inconclusive at best, ranging from numbers falling in 1997 then rising in 1998 to staying largely flat in these two years to falling down in usage regardless.
Sources (excluding FamilySearch):
https://forebears.io/forenames/lady (search also Leidy and Leydi)
https://datos.gob.ar/dataset/otros-nombres-personas-fisicas or http://nombres.historias.datos.gob.ar/ (Argentina)
http://aplicaciones3.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/VDATOS2-war/paginas/vrad/nom_ape.xhtml (Ecuador - goes back to the early 20th century)
https://censo2010.ibge.gov.br/nomes/ (Brazil - 2010 census name data)
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The name Lady (and its variants like Leidy or Leydi) was already in use before Diana married then Prince Charles and was growing a bit in usage by the 1960s and 1970s in some Latin American countries where it was used, though the event did of course lead to a further rise. About the variants, there are only a couple of countries where Lady is the most popular spelling (Ecuador being one of them). For others, phonetic variants are the most popular spellings.
The rise depended on the country and also the variant used (compare Lady in Ecuador to, say, Leydi in Mexico or Lady + variants in Argentina where it's more uncommon). It also impacted usage of the name Lady in the Philippines and Brazil.
Speaking of Brazil, looking up at its numbers from the 2010 census data, Lady was already in use there before the 1930s, though of course it peaked in the 1980s. The number of living persons named Leidy, on the other hand, didn't reach 20 or over in a given decade until the 1950s:
Lady: 100 (before '30), 126 (30s), 123 (40s), 138 (50s), 139 (60s), 202 (70s), 847 (80s), 363 (90s), 163 (00s)
Leidy: less than 20 (before '30), less than 20 (30s), less than 20 (40s), 30 (50s), 44 (60s), 80 (70s), 340 (80s), 216 (90s), 75 (00s)
Searching up the variant Ladi leads to a slightly different result: the name peaked in the 1960s, had a significant male minority and was mainly used in the southern states as opposed to Lady/Leidy where, taking the whole population into account, it is more evenly spread out.
Basing off of that, it might be reasonable to assume that the majority of Ladys born in the first half of the 20th century were born in the south.
With regards to the rise caused by Diana's death, the only country where I can find definitive proof of this being the case is Ecuador. Searching up FamilySearch records for births and baptisms from the second half of the 1990s in Guatemala and Colombia, the results I found are inconclusive at best, ranging from numbers falling in 1997 then rising in 1998 to staying largely flat in these two years to falling down in usage regardless.
Sources (excluding FamilySearch):
https://forebears.io/forenames/lady (search also Leidy and Leydi)
https://datos.gob.ar/dataset/otros-nombres-personas-fisicas or http://nombres.historias.datos.gob.ar/ (Argentina)
http://aplicaciones3.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/VDATOS2-war/paginas/vrad/nom_ape.xhtml (Ecuador - goes back to the early 20th century)
https://censo2010.ibge.gov.br/nomes/ (Brazil - 2010 census name data)
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Never for a human.
I’m always reminded of the Lady and the Tramp. I think that this name isn’t for humans for obvious reasons, but it’s great for a dog or cat.
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I’m always reminded of the Lady and the Tramp. I think that this name isn’t for humans for obvious reasons, but it’s great for a dog or cat.
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No thanks. This name is also calling women bread kneaders which is pretty much bringing back the past..
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Cute, although I would only use this as a nickname.
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I only like it as a nickname. I prefer Queenie.
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Why all this hate on such a pretty name? It's Lady, easy to spell and remember!
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Elegant!
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Lady is the name of one of the two main characters from Lady and the Tramp. She is a female Cocker Spaniel.
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I went to school with 3 sisters names Melissa, Delores, and Lydia, and they went by Missy, Dolly, and Lady.
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Only as a nickname - even then it’s still silly.
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Silly as a name.
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Do you really think it's actually a good given name? Sorry, it's more stereotypical nowadays.
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Columbian women football player Lady Andrade.
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