Lakota — #5193 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lakota

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,646 babies named Lakota between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakota currently holds the #5193 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 80 babies received it in a single year. Lakota is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,528 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakota performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 521 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lakota shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Lakota in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lakota 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 1,646 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.