Lakara

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Lakara has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Lakara, 1995

1 in 523,000

Lakara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Lakara?

Lakara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 251,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,443 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakara sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 362,443 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakara was born before 1989 — so the typical Lakara is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Lakara rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (10)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,749
1989

Spellings of Lakara

Lakara is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 67.0% against Lakara's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lakara around the world

Where Lakara ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lakara by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,749
1989
Peak year
1989
10 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lakara

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Lakara

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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