Lalita
Lalita was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 782 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lalita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lalita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lalita is “a female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.”
From Sanskrit ललित (lalita).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lalita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,386, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1979, the peak
Lalita peaked in 1979, when 32 girls were given it, #2,767 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,386 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,636 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,981 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,368 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,939 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,029 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,257 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,443 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,907 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,640 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,328 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,103 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,865 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,731 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,153 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,887 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,068 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,990 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,912 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,770 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,148 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,082 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,959 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,742 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,688 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,195 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,799 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,121 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,190 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,298 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,953 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,573 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,767 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,380 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,519 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,859 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,784 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,053 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,188 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,165 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,767 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,318 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,143 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,742 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,034 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,328 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,174 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,631 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,105 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,646 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,702 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,695 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,751 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,333 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,658 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,747 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,142 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,398 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,595 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,440 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,920 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,067 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,587 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,627 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,572 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,411 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,823 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,647 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,555 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lalita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lalita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lalita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lalita, and how old are they?
An estimated 736 Americans named Lalita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 28 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,803 people named Lalita (1,801 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 723 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,307 babies since 1880, Lalita is the second most given (18% of them).
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 Lalita
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 Lalita and names like it
- Compare Lalita and LatiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLalita peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lalita since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Lalita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lalita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lalita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.