Meaning not yet researched.
Lake: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,025 in 1892.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,025 in 1892; #2,068 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Lake in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,068 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1892, at #1,025.
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Lake: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,025 in 1892 · most boys in one year: 105 (2024).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Lake, making it the 2,068th most common boys’ name of the year, down 441 places from #1,627 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 105 boys named Lake in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,025, reached in 1892. The most boys given the name in a single year was 105, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,143 in 2015 and #2,159 in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Lake, making it the 3,619th most common girls’ name of the year, up 464 places from #4,083 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 36 girls named Lake in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,533, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 59, in 2020. For comparison, it was #3,326 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lake in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 3,924 US babies have been given the name, 24% of them girls and 76% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 998 babies named Lake.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 820 US boys were named Lake; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lake ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,012 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Luke (323,585 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lace, Layke and Layce are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lace (433), Layke (232), Layce (189), Lache (109), Laik (26), Laike (21).
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 Lake in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,012 | #1,602 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,619 | 72 | #2,068 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,083 | 105 | #1,627 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,303 | 89 | #1,815 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,014 | 99 | #1,713 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,945 | 88 | #1,798 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,804 | 79 | #1,883 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,874 | 82 | #1,843 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,227 | 69 | #2,074 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,278 | 74 | #1,949 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,558 | 63 | #2,181 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,326 | 65 | #2,143 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,817 | 52 | #2,448 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,050 | 45 | #2,647 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,021 | 53 | #2,405 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,934 | 52 | #2,426 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,738 | 65 | #2,086 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,956 | 77 | #1,878 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,257 | 67 | #2,081 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,930 | 67 | #2,061 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,071 | 73 | #1,867 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,421 | 66 | #1,934 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,270 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,214 | 61 | #1,923 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,703 | 62 | #1,840 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,531 | 50 | #2,103 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,149 | 55 | #1,908 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,923 | 55 | #1,814 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,313 | 77 | #1,462 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,503 | 78 | #1,409 |
| 1996 | — | — | 86 | #1,285 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,611 | 81 | #1,308 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,248 | 39 | #2,102 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,548 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,544 |
| 1991 | — | — | 24 | #2,791 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,919 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,175 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,807 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,280 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,562 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,317 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,583 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,765 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,756 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,762 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,383 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,530 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,314 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,584 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,743 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,237 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,273 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,464 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,401 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,416 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,849 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,866 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,511 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,951 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,749 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,629 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,245 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,561 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,159 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,712 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,503 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,996 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,213 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,659 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,811 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,994 | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,333 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,251 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #2,011 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,804 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,542 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,331 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,664 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,644 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,985 |
| 1931 | — | — | 12 | #2,272 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,018 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,861 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1927 | — | — | 15 | #2,157 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,086 | 16 | #2,034 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,516 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,933 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,179 | 15 | #2,179 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,841 | 14 | #2,294 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,859 | 15 | #2,217 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,372 | 29 | #1,366 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,114 | 22 | #1,603 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,077 | 17 | #1,953 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,525 | 16 | #1,945 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,315 | 16 | #1,899 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,283 | 12 | #2,246 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,401 | 9 | #2,368 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,150 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,473 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,732 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,726 | 5 | #1,140 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,025 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,050 |
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).