Girls' name · since 2012
Lakeley
24 babies named Lakeley in U.S. Social Security records since 2012, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #43,666 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,865 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
24 babies have been named Lakeley since 2012, making it today's #12865 girls' name.
Lakeley has 24 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12865 as of the latest data, more common than 26% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #43,666 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,865 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 24 born since 2012
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lakeley ranks #43,666 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,865 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 24 born since 2012, peaking in the 2020s.
- #43,666 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,865 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 24
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
Lakeley's 24 recorded births place it above 39.32% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lakeley compares
24 9th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lakeley's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lakeley | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 24 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Lakeley's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Lakeley's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 58% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 42%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2012, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Lakeley popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Lakeley by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (14 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Lakeley's strongest decade.
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Lakeley births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
10 births
- 2020s
2020s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 14 births (58% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2012–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lakeley draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.