Lakoda
#7,027 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lakoda has been given to 284 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #7,027 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.
Babies named Lakoda, 2025
1 in 276,000
Lakoda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Lakoda over time
In 2025, Lakoda went to 29% girls and 71% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Lakoda?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,027
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lakoda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakoda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakodas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakoda was born before 2014 — so the typical Lakoda is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 185
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Lakoda 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
- +1,670
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,423
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −484
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.92×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.3%
- Peak was 2012 (13)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.5% average annual change
Spellings of Lakoda
Lakoda is not the most common spelling — Dakota is, with 84.6% against Lakoda's 0.17%.
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.
Lakoda around the world
Where Lakoda 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 Australia2005–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lakoda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lakoda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lakoda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.