Lakota is a first name for all genders.
Few children have been named Lakota in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Lakota. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Lakota at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Lakota is number *** on the list of most common first names.
In fact, the name Lakota hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Lakota wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1997, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,097, 148 parents chose it in 1997 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Lakota, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lakota was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Lakota a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 4,490, for a total of 70 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Lakota seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With six letters, the name Lakota is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Lakota and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lakota, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Koala
Orange
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lakota
Lakota
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
K
O
T
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
A
K
O
T
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lakota sounds like this:
