Lometa — girls' name
88 babies named Lometa in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Lometa was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Lometa in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lometa
The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Lometa between 1915 and 1935, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lometa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1935. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lometa performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 39 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Lometa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lometa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lometa 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 88 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.
Lometa at a glance
Last recorded 1935Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lometa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1935–1915
- Peak year (1920)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1935.
88 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 9 births in a single year.
Lometa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 39 births that decade — 44% of Lometa's all-time total
Lometa decade highlights
- Peak decade 39 births
- Runner-up 26 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Lometa's strongest decade
39 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Lometa by state
Where Lometa concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 29 | 33.0% |
29 of 88 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 33.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 33.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1915–1935 (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.