Laikyn
Laikyn was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,725 among girls’ names; 2,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Laikyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laikyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laikyn?
#1,725 among girls’ names, 2025
Laikyn rose from #1,978 in 2015 to #1,725 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 56.6 to 73.4 per million.
162 babies in 2018, the peak
Laikyn peaked in 2018, when 162 babies were given it (150 girls, #1,468 among girls’ names). The 124 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,725 | 73.4 |
| 2024 | 138 | #1,550 | 85.2 |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,621 | 80.4 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,813 | 68.9 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,673 | 76.2 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,529 | 86.0 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,495 | 87.0 |
| 2018 | 150 | #1,468 | 88.2 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,570 | 81.1 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,711 | 70.5 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 | #1,978 | 56.6 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,523 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 70 | #2,554 | 39.9 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,613 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,384 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,670 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,324 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,082 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,098 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,466 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,314 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,302 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,326 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,280 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,513 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,098 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,346 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,546 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,086 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,227 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,325 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,501 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,211 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,860 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,329 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,738 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laikyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,188 Americans recorded as Laikyn, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 118 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laikyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laikyn, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,188 Americans ever recorded as Laikyn. The median Laikyn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,209 people named Laikyn (1,164 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 468 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,620 |
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 Laikyn born?
The states with the most babies named Laikyn are Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,504 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,020 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,221 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 7 | #877 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,515 | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #782 | 1.2× |
Where Laikyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laikyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1990 it was given 3.4 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 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 Laikyn 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 21,333 babies since 1880, Laikyn is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 902 babies (14%), the third 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 Laikyn
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 Laikyn and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laikyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Laikyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laikyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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