Lakya
Lakya was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 241 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,027, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2007, the peak
Lakya peaked in 2007, when 20 girls were given it, #6,703 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,027 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,668 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,873 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,101 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,998 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,170 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,468 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,703 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,011 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,417 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 14 | #8,053 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,812 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,650 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,551 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,351 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,611 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,744 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,655 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,829 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,886 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,302 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,533 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,267 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakya, and how old are they?
An estimated 238 Americans named Lakya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 230 people named Lakya (222 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Lakya?
Lakya is a less common spelling of Lakia: SSA has recorded 241 Lakya and 2,639 Lakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,454 babies since 1880, Lakya is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 67 babies recorded by SSA was a Lakya (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 Lakya
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 Lakya and names like it
- Compare Lakya and LakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLakya peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lakya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lakya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.