Given name
Ladislao
“a glorious ruler”
Ladislao is a variant of Ladislas. One Slavic interpretation is “a glorious ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ladislao is a variant of Ladislas. One Slavic interpretation is “a glorious ruler.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Ladislao is used as an equivalent of László.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ladislao through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 76 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 716 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ladislao’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Ladislao has a diminutive in Lalo. Ladislao shares a linguistic root with Władysław. Ladislao has a related form in Ladislas.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ladislao has relatives in 5 languages.
6 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ladislao
- Władysław III of Polandking of Poland and Hungary1424–1444
- Ladislao de GaussItalian painter of hungarian descent, pioneer of the European avant-garde1901–1970
- Ladislao DiwaFilipino revolutionary (1863-1930)
- Ladislao CabreraBolivian hero (1830-1921)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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