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Layken: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,423 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 79% of babies named Layken in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,423 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Layken: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,423 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 74 (2025).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Layken, making it the 2,423rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 451 places from #2,874 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 58 girls named Layken in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,423, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #3,015 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Layken, making it the 4,971st most common boys’ name of the year, down 694 places from #4,277 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 25 boys named Layken in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,683, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 30. For comparison, it was #4,985 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Layken in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 9 babies. In all, 1,550 US babies have been given the name, 80% of them girls and 20% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 672 babies named Layken.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 616 US girls were named Layken; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Layken ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #539 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), Lakyn (3,247 babies since 1880), Laiken (2,467 babies since 1880) and Lakin (2,355 babies since 1880).
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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 Layken 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 6 | #539 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,330 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,535 | #2,757 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,423 | 20 | #4,971 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,874 | 25 | #4,277 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,722 | 13 | #6,747 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,882 | 17 | #5,547 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,453 | 28 | #3,885 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,950 | 24 | #4,225 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,840 | 30 | #3,683 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,892 | 15 | #5,937 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,177 | 14 | #6,210 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,681 | 22 | #4,560 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,015 | 19 | #4,985 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,668 | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,242 | 10 | #7,871 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,558 | 11 | #7,345 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,758 | 14 | #6,130 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,362 | 9 | #8,519 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,966 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,500 | 6 | #11,484 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,149 | 7 | #9,721 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,387 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,946 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,939 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,165 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,580 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,499 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,562 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,889 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,735 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,182 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,744 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,153 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,672 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,087 | — | — |
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).