Lakenya
Lakenya was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 1,683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Lakenya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakenya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakenya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,778, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1979, the peak
Lakenya peaked in 1979, when 87 girls were given it, #1,415 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #14,778 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,386 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,819 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,748 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,104 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,100 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,548 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,012 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,244 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,970 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 21 | #6,251 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,361 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,108 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,515 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,021 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,287 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,305 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,802 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,528 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,307 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,534 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,428 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,723 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,655 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 43 | #2,799 | 23.3 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,012 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,538 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,257 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,671 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,411 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,538 | 22.7 |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,088 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,800 | 35.6 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,695 | 38.9 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,500 | 47.2 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,796 | 37.2 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,683 | 41.0 |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,415 | 54.2 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,529 | 47.7 |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,533 | 46.3 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,528 | 45.7 |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,647 | 40.5 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,866 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,868 | 30.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,226 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,309 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,041 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakenya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lakenya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lakenya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakenya, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,683 Americans ever recorded as Lakenya. The median Lakenya alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,313 people named Lakenya (1,298 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,641 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 523 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 744 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 327 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,114 babies since 1880, Lakenya is the most given (80% 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 Lakenya
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 Lakenya and names like it
- Compare Lakenya and LakinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLakenya peaked in 1979.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakenya since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Lakenya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lakenya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.