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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

La

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,442

peak year 1990

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1990
80 births
Best rank
#1,805
in 1990
First recorded
1913
#3,437 that year
Last recorded
2007
no later published record
Average birth year
1977
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
79 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199080#1,805Peak
  2. 199168#2,028
  3. 199261#2,208
  4. 199355#2,337
  5. 198453#1,948

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,805 in 1990 · peak births 80 in 1990

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 18% boys■ 82% girls

314 boys · 1,442 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where La has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.