Meaning not yet researched.
Lark: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,116 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,116 in 1949; #4,416 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Lark in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,416 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #1,116.
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Lark: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,116 in 1949 · most girls in one year: 67 (1950).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Lark, making it the 4,416th most common girls’ name of the year, down 870 places from #3,546 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 44 girls named Lark in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,116, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 1950. For comparison, it was #3,955 in 2015 and #1,127 in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Lark, making it the 11,447th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,976 places from #13,423 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 boys named Lark in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #806, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 1959. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lark in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 7 babies. In all, 2,134 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 456 babies named Lark.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 506 US girls were named Lark; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Larke and Larce are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Larke (24), Larce (5).
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 Lark 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 | 32 | #4,416 | 6 | #11,447 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,546 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,504 | 7 | #10,341 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,807 | 8 | #9,494 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,982 | 6 | #11,567 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,805 | 6 | #11,417 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,913 | 7 | #10,377 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,887 | 6 | #11,592 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,824 | 7 | #10,298 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,648 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,854 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,039 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,708 | — | — |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,474 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,977 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,076 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,139 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,220 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,822 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,087 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,508 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,830 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,916 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,082 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,100 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,335 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,122 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,299 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,320 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,893 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,235 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,489 | 5 | #7,999 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,402 | 5 | #7,646 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,325 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,019 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,620 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,006 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,289 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,047 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,417 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,069 | 5 | #5,129 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,298 | 6 | #4,199 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,681 | 8 | #3,132 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,075 | 6 | #3,744 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,607 | 7 | #3,466 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,912 | 7 | #3,513 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,906 | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,717 | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,478 | 5 | #4,358 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,264 | 11 | #2,602 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,691 | 7 | #3,443 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,663 | 8 | #3,074 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,116 | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,810 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,849 | 6 | #3,171 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,405 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,303 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,822 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,946 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,515 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,130 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,576 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,722 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,667 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,590 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,303 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,100 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,042 |
| 1885 | — | — | 7 | #806 |
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).