Laken
Laken is given to both girls and boys: 256 girls and 120 boys were given it in 2025 (#990 among girls’ names and #1,482 among boys’, #1,439 among all names counting both); 8,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,390 Americans named Laken and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 29.
Laken climbed 231 places in 2025, the #21 climb among the girls’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laken by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laken mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laken is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laken?
#990 among girls’ names, 2025
Laken rose from #1,616 in 2015 to #990 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.16 per 1,000.
376 babies in 2025, the peak
Laken peaked in 2025, when 376 babies were given it (256 girls, #990 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 193 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 256 | #990 | 120 | #1,482 |
| 2024 | 193 | #1,221 | 121 | #1,491 |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,522 | 109 | #1,603 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,418 | 152 | #1,275 |
| 2021 | 178 | #1,289 | 140 | #1,329 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,185 | 137 | #1,318 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,535 | 114 | #1,502 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,388 | 107 | #1,573 |
| 2017 | 131 | #1,649 | 106 | #1,548 |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,377 | 90 | #1,734 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,616 | 108 | #1,527 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,871 | 97 | #1,615 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,622 | 82 | #1,776 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,826 | 86 | #1,750 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,823 | 54 | #2,361 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,854 | 88 | #1,732 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,084 | 85 | #1,782 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,038 | 76 | #1,911 |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,567 | 70 | #2,009 |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,564 | 51 | #2,432 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,661 | 37 | #2,875 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,492 | 32 | #3,121 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,598 | 25 | #3,583 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,486 | 21 | #3,983 |
| 2001 | 133 | #1,424 | 19 | #4,216 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,439 | 18 | #4,304 |
| 1999 | 155 | #1,225 | 15 | #4,669 |
| 1998 | 179 | #1,081 | 14 | #4,780 |
| 1997 | 178 | #1,067 | 12 | #5,137 |
| 1996 | 164 | #1,108 | 14 | #4,519 |
| 1995 | 213 | #889 | 11 | #5,359 |
| 1994 | 214 | #898 | 12 | #4,980 |
| 1993 | 224 | #867 | 8 | #6,578 |
| 1992 | 207 | #938 | 11 | #5,093 |
| 1991 | 232 | #860 | 8 | #6,266 |
| 1990 | 197 | #953 | 9 | #5,620 |
| 1989 | 130 | #1,228 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 118 | #1,253 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,188 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,385 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,246 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,078 | 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 Laken a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,499 Americans recorded as Laken, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laken: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laken, and how old are they?
8,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,499 Americans ever recorded as Laken. The median Laken alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 5,940 people named Laken (4,566 women and girls, 1,374 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 2,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
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 Laken born?
The states with the most babies named Laken are Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,383 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #713 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 20 | #518 | 2.0× |
| Minnesota | 20 | #412 | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 17 | #416 | 2.7× |
| Florida | 16 | #1,384 | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 15 | #540 | 2.9× |
| Indiana | 15 | #690 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #742 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 13 | #772 | 0.8× |
Where Laken is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laken is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1984 it was given 5.2 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 Laken 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, Laken is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 376 of their 902 babies (42%), again the most given.
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 Laken
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 Laken and names like it
- Compare Laken and LakynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLaken peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laken since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Laken.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laken alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.