Laykin — #7741 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Laykin

The Social Security Administration has registered 549 babies named Laykin between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laykin currently holds the #7741 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Laykin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 60 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laykin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 258 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Laykin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Laykin in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laykin 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 549 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.