Meaning not yet researched.
Lakota: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,860 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,860 in 1997; #3,681 in 2025. About 59% of babies named Lakota in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,681 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,860.
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Lakota: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,860 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 80 (1997).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Lakota, making it the 3,681st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,413 places from #5,094 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 26 girls named Lakota in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,860, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #3,414 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Lakota, making it the 3,908th most common boys’ name of the year, down 253 places from #3,655 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 31 boys named Lakota in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,531, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 68. For comparison, it was #2,745 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lakota in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 3,245 US babies have been given the name, 52% of them girls and 48% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,015 babies named Lakota.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 369 US girls were named Lakota; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lakita (1,627 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laketa, Laketha and Laketta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Laketa (629), Laketha (303), Laketta (188), Lakeeta (183), Lakeyta (97), Lakitha (84), Lakieta (28), Lakitta (25), Lakotah (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lakota in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,681 | 28 | #3,908 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,094 | 31 | #3,655 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,951 | 45 | #2,826 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,163 | 36 | #3,311 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,686 | 26 | #4,080 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,367 | 37 | #3,104 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,116 | 42 | #2,920 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,116 | 38 | #3,079 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,420 | 36 | #3,227 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,966 | 41 | #2,914 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,414 | 44 | #2,745 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,521 | 54 | #2,388 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,748 | 49 | #2,507 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,793 | 49 | #2,539 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,969 | 45 | #2,687 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,923 | 40 | #2,942 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,024 | 55 | #2,371 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,296 | 33 | #3,393 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,112 | 44 | #2,747 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,037 | 63 | #2,090 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,772 | 62 | #2,026 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,785 | 55 | #2,149 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,324 | 52 | #2,144 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,043 | 47 | #2,237 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,945 | 45 | #2,265 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,474 | 38 | #2,509 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,357 | 49 | #1,980 |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,328 | 55 | #1,826 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,860 | 68 | #1,531 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,117 | 60 | #1,626 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,142 | 45 | #1,903 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,645 | 36 | #2,241 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,637 | 38 | #2,113 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,783 | 25 | #2,784 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,587 | 20 | #3,179 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,682 | 8 | #6,169 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,307 | 6 | #7,502 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,113 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,302 | 5 | #7,640 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,064 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,624 | — | — |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,473 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).