Laakea — #9357 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Laakea

The Social Security Administration has registered 199 babies named Laakea between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Laakea currently holds the #9357 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Laakea is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laakea performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Laakea shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Laakea in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laakea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 199 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.