Lakena
Lakena was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 85 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,738, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1986, the peak
Lakena peaked in 1986, when 10 girls were given it, #6,871 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #15,738 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,335 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,826 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,871 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,100 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,741 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,089 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,584 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,040 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,320 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,463 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,374 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakena, and how old are they?
An estimated 81 Americans named Lakena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 121 people named Lakena (120 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 82 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,017 babies since 1880, Lakena is the third most given (4.2% of them).
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 Lakena
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 Lakena and names like it
- Compare Lakena and LakenyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLakena peaked in 1986.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Lakena.
- Names starting with LMost given first.