Girls' name · since 1972
Lacrista
Lacrista has 19 recorded births since 1972 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1991 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #46,516 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 19
- born since 1972
- 1990s
- peak decade
Lacrista sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 19 recorded since 1972.
Lacrista has 19 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 1991.
- #46,516 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 19 born since 1972
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lacrista ranks #46,516 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 19 born since 1972, peaking in the 1990s.
- #46,516 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 19
- born since 1972
- 1990s
- peak decade
Lacrista's 19 recorded births place it above 35.39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lacrista's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lacrista splits its recorded history at 1980: 68% of all births land in the more recent half, 32% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1980 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1991 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lacrista popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–1991
- Peak year (1991)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Lacrista by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (8 births, 42% of the file).
1990s was Lacrista's strongest decade.
8 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Lacrista births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
- 1990s
1990s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 8 births (42% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lacrista: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1991)
Similar record span (~19 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lacrista draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.