Meaning not yet researched.
Larkin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,802 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,802 in 2006; #3,682 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Larkin in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,682 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,802.
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Larkin: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,802 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 115 (2006).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Larkin, making it the 3,682nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 135 places from #3,547 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 44 girls named Larkin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,802, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #2,251 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Larkin, making it the 3,415th most common boys’ name of the year, down 477 places from #2,938 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 43 boys named Larkin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #454, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 2019. For comparison, it was #2,793 in 2015 and #1,729 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Larkin in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 16 babies. In all, 4,540 US babies have been given the name, 44% of them girls and 56% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,198 babies named Larkin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 721 US girls were named Larkin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Larkyn, Larken and Larkynn 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Larkyn (442), Larken (119), Larkynn (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 Larkin 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 | 41 | #3,682 | 34 | #3,415 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,547 | 43 | #2,938 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,304 | 46 | #2,783 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,741 | 39 | #3,135 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,663 | 44 | #2,842 |
| 2020 | 86 | #2,127 | 46 | #2,710 |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,149 | 64 | #2,202 |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,021 | 58 | #2,317 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,049 | 56 | #2,332 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,104 | 56 | #2,354 |
| 2015 | 84 | #2,251 | 43 | #2,793 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,226 | 36 | #3,135 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,749 | 36 | #3,098 |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,033 | 21 | #4,618 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,531 | 30 | #3,564 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,682 | 25 | #4,061 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,584 | 33 | #3,376 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,430 | 20 | #4,832 |
| 2007 | 95 | #2,124 | 27 | #3,855 |
| 2006 | 115 | #1,802 | 21 | #4,444 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,540 | 28 | #3,497 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,440 | 14 | #5,669 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,481 | 22 | #3,916 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,135 | 16 | #4,830 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,151 | 13 | #5,548 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,608 | 25 | #3,381 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,343 | 13 | #5,210 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,047 | 16 | #4,316 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,936 | 14 | #4,590 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,194 | 16 | #4,118 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,445 | 13 | #4,684 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,363 | 10 | #5,718 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,819 | 16 | #3,942 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,610 | 12 | #4,738 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,321 | 17 | #3,560 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,687 | 12 | #4,563 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,434 | 11 | #4,692 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,191 | 11 | #4,334 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,582 | 13 | #3,647 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,885 | 9 | #4,692 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,526 | 13 | #3,526 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,547 | 11 | #3,826 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,020 | 9 | #4,343 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,621 | 12 | #3,608 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,099 | 9 | #4,359 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,548 | 11 | #3,750 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,674 | 9 | #4,253 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,143 | 16 | #2,744 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,228 | 17 | #2,611 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,089 | 14 | #2,901 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,759 | 7 | #4,587 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,223 | 8 | #4,033 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,912 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,956 | 7 | #4,242 |
| 1971 | — | — | 13 | #2,753 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,704 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,493 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,077 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,194 | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,900 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,365 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,612 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,242 |
| 1961 | — | — | 19 | #1,917 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,084 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,760 | 13 | #2,362 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,991 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,059 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,134 |
| 1955 | — | — | 16 | #2,013 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,737 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,656 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,645 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,944 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,729 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,855 |
| 1948 | — | — | 24 | #1,508 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,762 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,922 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,893 |
| 1944 | — | — | 24 | #1,385 |
| 1943 | — | — | 21 | #1,559 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,105 |
| 1941 | — | — | 18 | #1,665 |
| 1940 | — | — | 15 | #1,854 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,682 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,938 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,797 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,129 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,333 |
| 1934 | — | — | 23 | #1,448 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,876 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #2,054 |
| 1931 | — | — | 20 | #1,617 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,019 |
| 1929 | — | — | 16 | #1,968 |
| 1928 | — | — | 22 | #1,626 |
| 1927 | — | — | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1926 | — | — | 31 | #1,315 |
| 1925 | — | — | 25 | #1,520 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,603 |
| 1923 | — | — | 35 | #1,227 |
| 1922 | — | — | 35 | #1,236 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,868 |
| 1920 | — | — | 31 | #1,311 |
| 1919 | — | — | 30 | #1,304 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,427 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,565 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,358 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,327 |
| 1914 | — | — | 21 | #1,322 |
| 1913 | — | — | 14 | #1,476 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,152 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,241 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,167 |
| 1909 | — | — | 10 | #986 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,072 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,344 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #728 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #822 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,233 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #909 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,226 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #726 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,024 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #975 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #911 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,088 |
| 1889 | — | — | 10 | #652 |
| 1888 | — | — | 12 | #593 |
| 1886 | — | — | 8 | #729 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #624 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #921 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #848 |
| 1882 | — | — | 14 | #505 |
| 1881 | — | — | 10 | #577 |
| 1880 | — | — | 16 | #454 |
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).