Layken — #2865 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Layken

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,165 babies named Layken between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Layken currently holds the #2865 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 73 babies received it in a single year. Layken is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 290 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Layken performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 512 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Layken shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 97 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Layken in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Layken 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 1,165 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.