Ladaysha
Meaning of Ladaysha
Ladaysha is a feminine given name that arose in late-20th-century American naming practices through morphological innovation, combining the formative prefix la- with the base element “Dasha” (a diminutive of the Slavic Daria, itself from Greek doron “gift”). Phonetically rendered as /ləˈdeɪʃə/, it conforms to American English stress and syllable structure while reflecting the productive -sha suffix seen in contemporaneous names like Natasha and Latasha. Social Security records between 1989 and 2006 show intermittent usage—peaking at seventeen annual occurrences and ranking between 824 and 959—indicating a pattern of localized adoption rather than widespread diffusion. Though it lacks deep historical precedent, Ladaysha exemplifies technical processes of affixation and cross-linguistic borrowing, serving as an analytical case study in how Anglo-American and African American communities utilize onomastic creativity to articulate individual and cultural identity.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as luh-DAY-shuh (/ləˈdeɪʃə/)
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