Lakiya — girls' name
671 babies named Lakiya in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Lakiya was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Lakiya in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lakiya
The Social Security Administration has registered 671 babies named Lakiya between 1974 and 2019, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakiya currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakiya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 264 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lakiya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lakiya in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lakiya 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 671 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.
Lakiya at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lakiya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1974
- Peak year (2004)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
671 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 33 births in a single year.
Lakiya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 264 births that decade — 39% of Lakiya's all-time total
Lakiya decade highlights
- Peak decade 264 births
- Runner-up 129 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Lakiya's strongest decade
264 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Lakiya by state
Where Lakiya concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Michigan | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Texas | | 5 | 0.7% |
6 of 671 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Michigan 0.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Michigan accounts for 0.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.