Layken
Layken is given to both girls and boys: 74 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,423 among girls’ names and #4,970 among boys’, #3,711 among all names counting both); 1,550 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Layken and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Layken by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Layken?
#2,423 among girls’ names, 2025
Layken rose from #3,015 in 2015 to #2,423 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 31.9 to 46.0 per million.
101 babies in 2021, the peak
Layken peaked in 2021, when 101 babies were given it (73 girls, #2,453 among girls’ names). The 94 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,423 | 20 | #4,970 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,874 | 25 | #4,274 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,722 | 13 | #6,742 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,882 | 17 | #5,543 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,453 | 28 | #3,881 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,950 | 24 | #4,221 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,840 | 30 | #3,680 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,891 | 15 | #5,933 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,177 | 14 | #6,206 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,681 | 22 | #4,559 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #3,015 | 19 | #4,983 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,666 | 15 | #5,886 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,241 | 10 | #7,866 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,556 | 11 | #7,339 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,757 | 14 | #6,124 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,361 | 9 | #8,513 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,328 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,964 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,754 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,498 | 6 | #11,477 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,144 | 7 | #9,714 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,382 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,941 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,933 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,159 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,572 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,493 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,557 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,038 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,884 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,729 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,176 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,738 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,146 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,545 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,666 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,082 | 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 Layken a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,550 Americans recorded as Layken, 80% are girls and 20% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Layken: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Layken, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,550 Americans ever recorded as Layken. The median Layken alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 923 people named Layken (742 women and girls, 181 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,052 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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 Layken born?
The states with the most babies named Layken are Texas, Iowa and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Layken 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 21,167 babies since 1880, Layken is the sixth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 893 babies (11%), the fifth 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 Layken
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 Layken and names like it
- Compare Layken and LakenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLayken peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Layken since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Layken.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Layken alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.