Laiken
Laiken is given to both girls and boys: 71 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,502 among girls’ names and #4,201 among boys’, #3,645 among all names counting both); 2,467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,440 Americans named Laiken and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laiken by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laiken?
#2,502 among girls’ names, 2025
Laiken rose from #2,952 in 2015 to #2,502 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 33.1 to 44.2 per million.
131 babies in 2017, the peak
Laiken peaked in 2017, when 131 babies were given it (85 girls, #2,232 among girls’ names). The 96 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,502 | 25 | #4,201 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,683 | 35 | #3,364 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,407 | 35 | #3,385 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,619 | 30 | #3,734 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,242 | 31 | #3,613 |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,144 | 35 | #3,240 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,316 | 32 | #3,528 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,766 | 34 | #3,338 |
| 2017 | 85 | #2,232 | 46 | #2,697 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,162 | 31 | #3,571 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,952 | 22 | #4,481 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,725 | 20 | #4,788 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,584 | 13 | #6,468 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,403 | 13 | #6,511 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,383 | 21 | #4,592 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,064 | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,540 | 21 | #4,681 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,822 | 12 | #7,009 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,172 | 19 | #4,913 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,000 | 12 | #6,715 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,342 | 13 | #6,069 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,534 | 7 | #9,519 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,629 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,436 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,455 | 5 | #11,600 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,240 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,964 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,783 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,803 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,995 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,050 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,909 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,190 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,236 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,878 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,406 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,684 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,572 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,693 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,428 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,814 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Laiken a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,467 Americans recorded as Laiken, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laiken: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laiken, and how old are they?
2,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,467 Americans ever recorded as Laiken. The median Laiken alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,646 people named Laiken (1,333 women and girls, 313 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,844 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 274 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 836 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Laiken born?
The states with the most babies named Laiken are Michigan, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #912 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,794 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,179 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,365 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #790 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Laiken 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,301 babies since 1880, Laiken is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 96 of their 897 babies (11%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Laiken
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 Laiken and names like it
- Compare Laiken and LakenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaiken peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laiken since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Laiken.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laiken alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.