Lakin
Lakin was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,705 among girls’ names; 2,355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Lakin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakin?
#6,705 among girls’ names, 2025
Lakin fell from #4,453 in 2015 to #6,705 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 10.6 per million.
101 babies in 1996, the peak
Lakin peaked in 1996, when 101 babies were given it (94 girls, #1,630 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,705 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,060 | 7 | #10,487 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,293 | 7 | #10,333 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,530 | 13 | #6,681 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,855 | 7 | #10,340 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,965 | 9 | #8,449 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,089 | 13 | #6,628 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,697 | 11 | #7,418 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,753 | 16 | #5,680 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,543 | 18 | #5,236 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,453 | 25 | #4,137 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,411 | 25 | #4,079 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,210 | 13 | #6,469 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,491 | 14 | #6,184 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,579 | 20 | #4,759 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,073 | 11 | #7,371 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,536 | 23 | #4,368 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,192 | 18 | #5,174 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,258 | 22 | #4,446 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,651 | 24 | #4,053 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,189 | 18 | #4,746 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,942 | 20 | #4,351 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,906 | 9 | #7,590 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,623 | 9 | #7,390 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,421 | 15 | #5,035 |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,651 | 7 | #8,734 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,452 | 6 | #9,397 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,999 | 9 | #6,611 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,774 | 9 | #6,395 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,630 | 7 | #7,620 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,767 | 6 | #8,417 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,693 | 8 | #6,731 |
| 1993 | 82 | #1,783 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,742 | 9 | #5,918 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,940 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,298 | 5 | #8,906 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,539 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,672 | 6 | #6,898 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,633 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,442 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,130 | 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 Lakin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,355 Americans recorded as Lakin, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lakin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakin, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,355 Americans ever recorded as Lakin. The median Lakin alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,981 people named Lakin (1,587 women and girls, 394 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 773 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 500 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,333 babies since 1880, Lakin is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 902 babies (1.9%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Lakin
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 Lakin and names like it
- Compare Lakin and LakenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLakin peaked in 1996.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakin since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Lakin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lakin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.