Laakea
Laakea was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,633 among boys’ names; 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laakea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laakea?
#8,633 among boys’ names, 2025
Laakea fell from #7,808 in 2015 to #8,633 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 5.3 per million.
14 babies in 2007, the peak
Laakea peaked in 2007, when 14 boys were given it, #6,127 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,633 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,494 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,662 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,399 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,337 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,366 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,570 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,317 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,561 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,808 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #10,265 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,558 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,334 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,288 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,920 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,847 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,554 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,127 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,764 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,537 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,913 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,022 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,874 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,885 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,136 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,781 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,535 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Laakea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 218 Americans recorded as Laakea, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laakea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laakea, and how old are they?
An estimated 215 Americans named Laakea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Laakea (55 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Laakea born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #119 | 175.2× |
Where Laakea is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laakea is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1996 it was given 175.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Laakea with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,374 babies since 1880, Laakea is the third most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 137 babies (6.6%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Laakea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Laakea and names like it
- Compare Laakea and LakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaakea peaked in 2007.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laakea since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Laakea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laakea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.