Lalita — girls' name
781 babies named Lalita in U.S. Social Security records since 1947, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Lalita was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Lalita in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lalita
The Social Security Administration has registered 781 babies named Lalita between 1947 and 2023, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lalita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lalita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 187 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lalita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lalita in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lalita 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 781 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.
Lalita at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lalita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1947
- Peak year (1979)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 77 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
781 total births across 77 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 32 births in a single year.
Lalita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 187 births that decade — 24% of Lalita's all-time total
Lalita decade highlights
- Peak decade 187 births
- Runner-up 182 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Lalita's strongest decade
187 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Lalita by state
Where Lalita concentrates geographically — total births since 1947
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 0.9% |
7 of 781 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California 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, 1947–2023 (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.