Laykin
Laykin was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,031 among girls’ names; 629 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laykin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laykin?
#6,031 among girls’ names, 2025
Laykin fell from #5,391 in 2015 to #6,031 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 12.4 per million.
42 babies in 2017, the peak
Laykin peaked in 2017, when 42 babies were given it (30 girls, #4,643 among girls’ names). The 20 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,031 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,800 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,760 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,735 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,671 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,580 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,240 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,723 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,643 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,309 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,391 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,064 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,230 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,026 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,462 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,531 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,810 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,356 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,705 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,302 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,136 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,268 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,102 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,200 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,580 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,825 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,776 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,083 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,793 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,447 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,227 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,722 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,498 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,940 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laykin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 629 Americans recorded as Laykin, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laykin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laykin, and how old are they?
An estimated 624 Americans named Laykin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 488 people named Laykin (418 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,167 babies since 1880, Laykin is the seventh most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 893 babies (2.2%), the sixth 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 Laykin
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 Laykin and names like it
- Compare Laykin and LakenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLaykin peaked in 2017.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laykin since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Laykin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laykin alive today were born 2013-2025.
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