Laketa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Laketa

The Social Security Administration has registered 629 babies named Laketa between 1954 and 1997, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laketa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laketa performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 292 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Laketa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Laketa in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laketa 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 629 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.