MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ladu mean?
Ladu is an affectionate name drawn from the round sweet called laddu. Odia uses the word ladu for this sweet, making the food image a natural source of a familiar personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लाडू
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଲାଡୁ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
लादू
Letter-by-letter: lādū
11,863 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
लादु
Letter-by-letter: lādu
2,646 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ladu in Indian usage
2,290 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 393 records (17.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,897 records (82.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 129 |
| 1940s | 338 |
| 1950s | 487 |
| 1960s | 505 |
| 1970s | 462 |
| 1980s | 239 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 1,622 |
| Goa | 367 |
| Other states | 301 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001