Lakita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lakita has been given to 1,627 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1986, with 107 recorded.
Babies named Lakita, 2012
1 in 523,000
Lakita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lakita?
Lakita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,179 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lakita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakita was born before 1982 — so the typical Lakita is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 45.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,627
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (735).
Is Lakita 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (107)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lakita
Lakita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 44.5% against Lakita's 0.34%.
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 Lakita is used
Across 1910–2025, Lakita was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 153,605 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Illinois1 in 100,000
- 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 7Michigan1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 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. Lakita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lakita around the world
Where Lakita 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.
- England & Wales2008–2008#4,524in 2008
- South Australia1994–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lakita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lakita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lakita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.