Lakia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lakia has been given to 2,639 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1985, with 114 recorded.
Babies named Lakia, 2018
1 in 502,000
Lakia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lakia?
Lakia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 502,000
- 7 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 243,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 348,244 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lakia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakia was born before 1987 — so the typical Lakia is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 37.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,639
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (997).
Is Lakia 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 1985 (114)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Lakia
Lakia is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 29.9% against Lakia's 0.10%.
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.
Where Lakia is used
Across 1910–2025, Lakia was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 93,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 10,000
- 2Maryland1 in 10,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 4Virginia1 in 50,000
- 5Alabama1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in 100,000
- 7Georgia1 in 100,000
- 8Illinois1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lakia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lakia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lakia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lakia
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lakia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lakia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.