I am Australian and have always known it exclusively as the American term “ladybug”. Never heard of ladybird before.
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We call them ladybirds in the UK. No idea why.
Santa Maria is the lady in question. The bird part could be a corruption of ‘beetle’ maybe? Or perhaps just it just sounded more poetic.
Also Australian, never heard of ladybird… Weird
