Lada (given name)

Lada (Cyrillic: Лада) is a Slavic female given name. In Slavic mythology, Lada is the goddess of beauty, love and marriage. It may be related to the word lad (order), the Old Czech lada (girl, maid) or Serbian and Croatian mlada (bride). Pronounced lah-dah. Lada is also a shortened name for the Slavic names Ladislava and Wladysława.

Lada is also a Polish, Czech surname.[1]

Name days

  • Czech: 7 August
  • Slovenian: 4 May or 27 June

People

Lada

Ladislava

  • Ladislava Bakanic – American gymnast
  • Ladislava Kozderková – Czech actress
  • Ladislava Něrgešová – Czech actress

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. "Lada Family History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
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