Feminine dossier · first seen 1983

Lakota

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Lakota
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Cross-generational persistence

Peak era

1997

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1983Peak 19972024

Peak year

1997

Decline from peak

68.8%

2024

All-time

1,646

Lakota has avoided the sharper boom-and-bust cycles of fashion naming. Its strength is not novelty but endurance: steady recognition across eras, families, and classrooms.

Your name peaked in 1997, when 80 girls were named Lakota.

In 2024, only 25 girls were given the name.

Down 68.8% from its peak.

All told, about 1,646 Americans have been named Lakota and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1983.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityModerate cultural durability

TrajectoryCross-generational persistence

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