Lotta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lotta

The Social Security Administration has registered 499 babies named Lotta between 1880 and 2016, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lotta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1883, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lotta performed strongest in the 1880s, accumulating 178 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lotta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lotta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lotta 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 499 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.