Meaning not yet researched.
Laikyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,468 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,468 in 2018; #1,725 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Laikyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,725 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,468.
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Laikyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,468 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 150 (2018).
In 2025, 118 US girls were named Laikyn, making it the 1,725th most common girls’ name of the year, down 175 places from #1,550 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 138 girls named Laikyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,468, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 150. For comparison, it was #1,978 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laikyn in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 8 babies. In all, 2,188 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 998 babies named Laikyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,323 US girls were named Laikyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 150. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,621 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laikyn ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #782 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), Laiken (2,467 babies since 1880) and Lakin (2,355 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Laikyn 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #782 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #877 | #903 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,020 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,222 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,504 | #1,996 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,515 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,725 | 6 | #11,440 |
| 2024 | 138 | #1,550 | 7 | #10,490 |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,813 | 6 | #11,696 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,673 | 5 | #13,265 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,529 | 10 | #7,845 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,495 | 12 | #7,008 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,468 | 12 | #6,961 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,570 | 5 | #13,434 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,711 | 6 | #11,567 |
| 2015 | 101 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,385 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,325 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,084 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,318 | — | — |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,306 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,285 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,104 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,352 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,551 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,091 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,232 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,330 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,507 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,217 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,866 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,336 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,744 | — | — |
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).