Lake — #1626 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lake

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,913 babies named Lake between 1891 and 2024, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lake currently holds the #1626 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 104 babies received it in a single year. Lake is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 895 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lake performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 629 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Lake shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 123 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Lake in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lake 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 2,913 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.