Meaning not yet researched.
Lakin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,632 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,632 in 1996; #6,706 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lakin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,706 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,632.
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Lakin: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,632 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 94 (1996).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Lakin, making it the 6,706th most common girls’ name of the year, down 643 places from #6,063 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 girls named Lakin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,632, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #4,454 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Lakin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,057, reached in 2006. The most boys given the name in a single year was 25, in 2015. For comparison, it was #4,139 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lakin in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 29 babies. In all, 2,355 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 836 babies named Lakin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 239 US girls were named Lakin; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Laikyn (2,188 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lakin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,706 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,063 | 7 | #10,492 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,298 | 7 | #10,338 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,533 | 13 | #6,686 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,859 | 7 | #10,345 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,966 | 9 | #8,454 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,093 | 13 | #6,633 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,701 | 11 | #7,422 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,755 | 16 | #5,684 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,545 | 18 | #5,240 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,454 | 25 | #4,139 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,413 | 25 | #4,082 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,212 | 13 | #6,474 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,493 | 14 | #6,190 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,580 | 20 | #4,761 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,074 | 11 | #7,377 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,537 | 23 | #4,370 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,193 | 18 | #5,179 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,259 | 22 | #4,448 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,652 | 24 | #4,057 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,193 | 18 | #4,751 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,946 | 20 | #4,356 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,909 | 9 | #7,597 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,626 | 9 | #7,397 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,425 | 15 | #5,041 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,655 | 7 | #8,742 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,455 | 6 | #9,404 |
| 1998 | 75 | #2,002 | 9 | #6,618 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,776 | 9 | #6,401 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,632 | 7 | #7,627 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,771 | 6 | #8,424 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,698 | 8 | #6,737 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,746 | 9 | #5,925 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,303 | 5 | #8,915 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,677 | 6 | #6,905 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,443 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,131 | — | — |
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).