Laken
#987 for girls in 2025, 256 births · #1,477 for boys in 2025, 120 births
Given to girls 73.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 232 births
- Debut · girls
- 19 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,240since 1984
Laken over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #987 | 256 | #1,477 | 120 |
| 2024 | #1,221 | 193 | #1,487 | 121 |
| 2023 | #1,519 | 141 | #1,591 | 109 |
| 2022 | #1,415 | 160 | #1,269 | 152 |
| 2021 | #1,288 | 178 | #1,325 | 140 |
| 2020 | #1,183 | 196 | #1,313 | 137 |
| 2019 | #1,528 | 141 | #1,494 | 114 |
| 2018 | #1,386 | 162 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #1,643 | 131 | #1,541 | 106 |
| 2016 | #1,371 | 171 | #1,724 | 90 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 | #1,523 | 108 |
| 2014 | #1,868 | 108 | #1,608 | 97 |
| 2013 | #1,616 | 133 | #1,763 | 82 |
| 2012 | #1,823 | 111 | #1,742 | 86 |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 | #2,346 | 54 |
| 2010 | #1,847 | 110 | #1,725 | 88 |
| 2009 | #2,076 | 98 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,032 | 102 | #1,899 | 76 |
| 2007 | #1,560 | 145 | #1,995 | 70 |
| 2006 | #1,560 | 139 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #1,657 | 120 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #1,488 | 135 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #1,483 | 128 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #1,422 | 133 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #1,222 | 155 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #1,081 | 179 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #1,066 | 178 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #1,106 | 164 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #889 | 213 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #898 | 214 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #863 | 224 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #938 | 207 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #860 | 232 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #955 | 197 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #1,231 | 130 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,249 | 118 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,182 | 123 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,380 | 93 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,239 | 110 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Laken! It came in at #3,990, and was given to 19 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 20 girls a year got the name.
Where Laken is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#279 · 1 in 1,101
- Mississippi#303 · 1 in 1,182
- Kentucky#374 · 1 in 1,650
- Tennessee#520 · 1 in 2,489
- Arkansas#550 · 1 in 2,278
Best ever in a state: #103 in Mississippi, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #279 | 6 | 1 in 1,101 |
| Mississippi | #303 | 9 | 1 in 1,182 |
| Kentucky | #374 | 11 | 1 in 1,650 |
| Tennessee | #520 | 12 | 1 in 2,489 |
| Arkansas | #550 | 5 | 1 in 2,278 |
| Alabama | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,638 |
| Louisiana | #617 | 7 | 1 in 2,814 |
| Ohio | #1,225 | 6 | 1 in 8,596 |
| Texas | #3,183 | 5 | 1 in 31,663 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Laken
- 234 spots since 2024 (#1,221 → #987)
- 196 spots since 2020 (#1,183 → #987)
- 622 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #987)
- Biggest jump: 276 spots in 1990 (#1,231 → #955)
- Biggest drop: 217 spots in 1996 (#889 → #1,106)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 1991 at #860 (232 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1990–1995
- Highest: 1 in 6,278 girls born in 2025 were named Laken (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #860 in 1991, was only 1 in 8,082 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.5% of all girls named Laken (1,963) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 593 | #1,182 (1987) | #1,712 |
| 1990s | 1,963 | #860 (1991) | #988 |
| 2000s | 1,249 | #1,422 (2001) | #1,630 |
| 2010s | 1,311 | #1,371 (2016) | #1,651 |
| 2020s | 1,124 | #987 (2025) | #1,269 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Laken in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 15,865 of them was named Laken, which outranked 90.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,807Ryder112
- #1,807Skyy112
- #1,807Stormy112
- #1,823Laken111
- #1,823Aleeyah111
- #1,823Chiara111
- #1,823Dianna111
- #1,831Aadhya110
- #1,831Adina110
- #1,831Aislynn110
Tied with 7 names at #1,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 22,058 of them was named Laken, which outranked 87.8% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,729Salman87
- #1,729Stuart87
- #1,729Wesson87
- #1,742Laken86
- #1,742Abhinav86
- #1,742Aj86
- #1,742Cartier86
- #1,756Aksel85
- #1,756Andrei85
- #1,756Ayman85
Tied with 13 names at #1,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.