Lakota
Recorded 1978–2025 · United States
Lakota was most popular in 1997, when 148 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,097 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,509, with 69 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,245 people named Lakota.
Lakota over time
How old is the name Lakota?
Lakota first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1978, which makes it about 47 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 42 of the 48 years since.
How many people are named Lakota?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,245 American births named Lakota between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,202 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Lakota in 2025?
69 American babies were named Lakota in 2025, ranking #4,509 that year.
Is Lakota getting more or less popular?
Lakota is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 67 births a year, against 99 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -33% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Lakota a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Lakota is a unisex name — 52.0% of the 3,245 Americans given it were girls and 48.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 51% girls and 49% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Lakota?
Roughly 3,202 Americans named Lakota are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 20 years old, and half are between 11 and 27.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Lakota is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
Explore further
See Lakota on the interactive charts
About · Privacy · Contact
Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org