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Laiken: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,144 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,144 in 2020; #2,502 in 2025. About 74% of babies named Laiken in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,502 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,144.
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Laiken: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,144 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 90 (2016).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Laiken, making it the 2,502nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 181 places from #2,683 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 65 girls named Laiken in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,144, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 90, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,952 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Laiken, making it the 4,202nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 836 places from #3,366 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 35 boys named Laiken in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,698, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #4,483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laiken in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 7 babies. In all, 2,467 US babies have been given the name, 78% of them girls and 22% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 911 babies named Laiken.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 761 US girls were named Laiken; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laiken ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #790 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laken (8,499 babies since 1880), Lakyn (3,247 babies since 1880), Lakin (2,355 babies since 1880) and Laikyn (2,188 babies since 1880).
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Laiken in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #790 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #912 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,179 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,365 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,794 | #2,753 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,502 | 25 | #4,202 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,683 | 35 | #3,366 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,407 | 35 | #3,387 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,619 | 30 | #3,736 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,242 | 31 | #3,617 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,144 | 35 | #3,242 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,316 | 32 | #3,531 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,767 | 34 | #3,342 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,232 | 46 | #2,698 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,162 | 31 | #3,572 |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,952 | 22 | #4,483 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,727 | 20 | #4,792 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,584 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,404 | 13 | #6,517 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,384 | 21 | #4,594 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,065 | 21 | #4,622 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,541 | 21 | #4,683 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,823 | 12 | #7,014 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,173 | 19 | #4,915 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,001 | 12 | #6,720 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,346 | 13 | #6,075 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,538 | 7 | #9,525 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,633 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,459 | 5 | #11,608 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,411 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,690 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,577 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,698 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,432 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,817 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).