Meaning not yet researched.
Laken: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 256 in 2025. Its best rank was #862 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #862 in 1991; #990 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Laken in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#990 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #862.
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Laken: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 256 girls in 2025. Peak: #862 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 256 (2025).
In 2025, 256 US girls were named Laken, making it the 990th most common girls’ name of the year, up 231 places from #1,221 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 193 girls named Laken in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #862, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 256, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,616 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 120 US boys were named Laken, making it the 1,482nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 9 places from #1,491 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 121 boys named Laken in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,275, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 152. For comparison, it was #1,527 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laken in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 19 babies. In all, 8,499 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,243 babies named Laken.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,729 US girls were named Laken; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 256. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,278 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laken ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #222 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lakyn (3,247 babies since 1880), Laiken (2,467 babies since 1880), Lakin (2,355 babies since 1880) and Laikyn (2,188 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laykin, Lakynn and Laekyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Laykin (629), Lakynn (398), Laekyn (232), Lakeyn (181), Laikin (73), Laykyn (59), Lakan (40), Lakken (25), Laeken (10).
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 Laken 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 5 | #222 | — |
| Kansas | 11 | #308 | — |
| Minnesota | 13 | #412 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #416 | — |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #435 | — |
| Tennessee | 15 | #518 | #804 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #540 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #589 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #619 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #633 | #817 |
| Indiana | 9 | #690 | #602 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #713 | #1,333 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #742 | #1,182 |
| Missouri | 7 | #772 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #831 | #1,255 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #850 | #736 |
| Ohio | 10 | #926 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,020 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,383 | #1,588 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,384 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,524 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 256 | #990 | 120 | #1,482 |
| 2024 | 193 | #1,221 | 121 | #1,491 |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,522 | 109 | #1,603 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,418 | 152 | #1,275 |
| 2021 | 178 | #1,289 | 140 | #1,329 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,185 | 137 | #1,318 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,535 | 114 | #1,502 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,388 | 107 | #1,573 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,649 | 106 | #1,548 |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,377 | 90 | #1,734 |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,616 | 108 | #1,527 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,871 | 97 | #1,615 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,622 | 82 | #1,777 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,826 | 86 | #1,751 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,823 | 54 | #2,362 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,854 | 88 | #1,733 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,084 | 85 | #1,783 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,038 | 76 | #1,911 |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,567 | 70 | #2,009 |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,564 | 51 | #2,433 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,662 | 37 | #2,879 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,493 | 32 | #3,125 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,599 | 25 | #3,588 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,487 | 21 | #3,988 |
| 2001 | 133 | #1,425 | 19 | #4,222 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,441 | 18 | #4,311 |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,227 | 15 | #4,675 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,082 | 14 | #4,785 |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,068 | 12 | #5,143 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,110 | 14 | #4,525 |
| 1995 | 213 | #892 | 11 | #5,365 |
| 1994 | 214 | #899 | 12 | #4,986 |
| 1993 | 224 | #868 | 8 | #6,584 |
| 1992 | 207 | #940 | 11 | #5,100 |
| 1991 | 232 | #862 | 8 | #6,273 |
| 1990 | 197 | #955 | 9 | #5,627 |
| 1989 | 130 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1988 | 118 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,079 | — | — |
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).