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How popular is “Lakota” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lakota” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lakota” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lakota” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lakota” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lakota” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lakota” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lakota” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 5 5 0%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 7 6 8%
1990 21 0.000005313 13 8 24%
1991 50 0.000012836 30 20 20%
1992 46 0.000011975 21 25 -9%
1993 68 0.000018036 30 38 -12%
1994 83 0.000022326 47 36 13%
1995 108 0.000029491 63 45 17%
1996 125 0.000034273 65 60 4%
1997 148 0.000040819 80 68 8%
1998 116 0.000031537 61 55 5%
1999 112 0.000030321 63 49 13%
2000 100 0.000026456 62 38 24%
2001 94 0.000025111 49 45 4%
2002 95 0.000025413 48 47 1%
2003 96 0.000025248 44 52 -8%
2004 93 0.00002434 38 55 -18%
2005 122 0.000031731 60 62 -2%
2006 119 0.000030079 56 63 -6%
2007 100 0.000025014 56 44 12%
2008 84 0.00002137 51 33 21%
2009 112 0.000029318 57 55 2%
2010 79 0.000021376 39 40 -1%
2011 83 0.000022691 38 45 -8%
2012 112 0.000030623 63 49 13%
2013 112 0.000030721 63 49 13%
2014 99 0.000026711 45 54 -9%
2015 91 0.000024589 47 44 3%
2016 79 0.000021534 38 41 -4%
2017 82 0.000022929 46 36 12%
2018 73 0.000020763 35 38 -4%
2019 77 0.000022184 35 42 -9%
2020 83 0.000024846 46 37 11%
2021 55 0.000016234 29 26 5%
2022 70 0.000020691 34 36 -3%
2023 83 0.000025066 38 45 -8%
2024 56 0.000016824 25 31 -11%

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