Lakin — #6028 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lakin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,899 babies named Lakin between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lakin currently holds the #6028 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 94 babies received it in a single year. Lakin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 438 additional births since 1988.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lakin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 777 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lakin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 96 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Lakin in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lakin 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 1,899 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.