Lakita
Lakita was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 1,627 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Lakita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,326, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1986, the peak
Lakita peaked in 1986, when 107 girls were given it, #1,266 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,326 | 4.0 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,988 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,541 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,933 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,767 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,890 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,483 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,308 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,071 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,570 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 22 | #4,611 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,757 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,463 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,540 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,709 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,271 | 29.5 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,929 | 36.3 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,920 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,559 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,266 | 62.4 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,696 | 39.5 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,976 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,556 | 43.1 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,594 | 43.7 |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,554 | 46.2 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,592 | 44.0 |
| 1979 | 83 | #1,458 | 51.7 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,343 | 58.1 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,390 | 52.8 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,611 | 42.3 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,469 | 48.0 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,659 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,079 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,858 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,909 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,956 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,254 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,525 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,460 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,539 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,033 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,397 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,226 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakita, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,627 Americans ever recorded as Lakita. The median Lakita alive today is 43 years old; half are between 38 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,293 people named Lakita (1,288 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,578 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 624 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 846 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 79 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lakita born?
The states with the most babies named Lakita are Illinois, North Carolina and Virginia, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 103 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 55 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 46 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 43 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 42 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 42 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 37 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Lakita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakita is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1963 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lakita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,402 babies since 1880, Lakita is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 none of their 69 babies recorded by SSA was a Lakita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lakita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lakita and names like it
- Compare Lakita and LakotaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLakita peaked in 1986.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakita since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Lakita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lakita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.