La — unisex name

What the Data Says About La

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,442 babies named La between 1913 and 2007, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, La currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 80 babies received it in a single year. La is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 314 additional births since 1926.

Decade-level aggregation shows that La performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 432 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, La shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list La in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for La in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,442 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.