Meaning not yet researched.
Lakyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,489 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 89% of babies named Lakyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,489 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lakyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,489 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 153 (2015).
In 2025, 144 US girls were named Lakyn, making it the 1,489th most common girls’ name of the year, up 485 places from #1,974 in 2024. That is 44 more than the 100 girls named Lakyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,489, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 153, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,500 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Lakyn, making it the 5,510th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,035 places from #7,545 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 11 boys named Lakyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,510, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #9,222 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lakyn in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 9 babies. In all, 3,247 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,215 babies named Lakyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,236 US girls were named Lakyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 145. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,162 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lakyn ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #293 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), Laiken (2,467 babies since 1880), Lakin (2,355 babies since 1880) and Laikyn (2,188 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Laikynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Laikynn (366).
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 Lakyn 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 6 | #293 | #334 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #436 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #467 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #583 | #449 |
| Missouri | 9 | #614 | #799 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #620 | #485 |
| Utah | 5 | #769 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #854 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,067 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,149 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,584 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,594 | #1,587 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,682 | #1,256 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,534 | #1,252 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,489 | 17 | #5,510 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,974 | 11 | #7,545 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,642 | 17 | #5,586 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,727 | 10 | #8,086 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,765 | 13 | #6,495 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,795 | 7 | #10,373 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,667 | 6 | #11,578 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,784 | 10 | #7,902 |
| 2016 | 145 | #1,548 | 8 | #9,347 |
| 2015 | 153 | #1,500 | 8 | #9,222 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,812 | 5 | #13,226 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,871 | 12 | #6,858 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,908 | 5 | #13,386 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,428 | 8 | #9,259 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,527 | 7 | #10,568 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,150 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,211 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,274 | — | — |
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).