Laken — #1220 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Laken

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,982 babies named Laken between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laken currently holds the #1220 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 232 babies received it in a single year. Laken is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,139 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laken performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,963 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Laken shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 443 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Laken in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laken 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 5,982 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.