Laiken — #2674 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Laiken

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,863 babies named Laiken between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laiken currently holds the #2674 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 90 babies received it in a single year. Laiken is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 508 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laiken performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 658 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Laiken shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 103 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Laiken in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laiken 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 1,863 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.