Lakota
Lakota is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199780 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1983
- 3,174people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,646 girls have been named Lakota in the United States since 1983, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 80 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 32%.
Lakota is used for both sexes: 48% of its bearers are boys (1,528), most of them born around 1997.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Lakota was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1997 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Hannah. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Lakota
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Imanipeak 1998
- Baileypeak 1998
- Devynnpeak 2009
- Kamripeak 1996
- Kassidipeak 1998
- Savannahpeak 2000
- Baileepeak 2000
- Kayannapeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.