Lakyn
Lakyn is given to both girls and boys: 144 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,489 among girls’ names and #5,508 among boys’, #2,578 among all names counting both); 3,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Lakyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lakyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lakyn?
#1,489 among girls’ names, 2025
Lakyn rose from #1,500 in 2015 to #1,489 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 85.7 to 89.6 per million.
161 babies in 2015, the peak
Lakyn peaked in 2015, when 161 babies were given it (153 girls, #1,500 among girls’ names). The 161 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,489 | 89.6 |
| 2024 | 100 | #1,974 | 61.7 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,642 | 79.1 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,727 | 73.8 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,625 | 78.6 |
| 2020 | 113 | #1,765 | 69.9 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,795 | 67.9 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,667 | 74.1 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,784 | 67.8 |
| 2016 | 145 | #1,548 | 81.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,500 | 85.7 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,812 | 63.3 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,871 | 61.5 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,908 | 59.6 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,427 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,192 | 50.1 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,258 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,527 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,224 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,832 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,887 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,021 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,722 | 31.7 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,688 | 31.7 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,899 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,689 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,484 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,945 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,066 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,193 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,434 | 30.1 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,560 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,134 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,413 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,636 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,318 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,830 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,533 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,145 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,206 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,271 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lakyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,247 Americans recorded as Lakyn, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lakyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lakyn, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,247 Americans ever recorded as Lakyn. The median Lakyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,194 people named Lakyn (2,104 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,455 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,720 |
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 Lakyn born?
The states with the most babies named Lakyn are Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Wisconsin and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 12 | #436 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 9 | #614 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,534 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #854 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,067 | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #620 | 2.8× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #583 | 2.9× |
| Iowa | 7 | #467 | 0.2× |
| West Virginia | 6 | #293 | 6.4× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,149 | 0.1× |
Where Lakyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lakyn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1985 it was given 6.4 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 Lakyn 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, Lakyn is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 161 of their 902 babies (18%), again the second 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 Lakyn
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 Lakyn and names like it
- Compare Lakyn and LakenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLakyn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lakyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Lakyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lakyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.