Lakyn
#1,484 for girls in 2025, 144 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 95.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 144 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,103since 1985
Lakyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Lakyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #1,484 | 144 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #1,636 | 127 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #1,720 | 121 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #1,622 | 129 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,763 | 113 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #1,663 | 126 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #1,779 | 117 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #1,545 | 145 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #1,493 | 153 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #1,904 | 105 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #2,416 | 76 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #2,185 | 89 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 89 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,707 | 58 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,421 | 53 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,541 | 49 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lakyn! It came in at #6,955, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1986, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Lakyn is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#250 · 1 in 873
- Arkansas#285 · 1 in 1,026
- Kansas#304 · 1 in 1,146
- Oklahoma#321 · 1 in 1,292
- Nebraska#434 · 1 in 1,618
Best ever in a state: #171 in West Virginia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #250 | 7 | 1 in 873 |
| Arkansas | #285 | 11 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Kansas | #304 | 11 | 1 in 1,146 |
| Oklahoma | #321 | 13 | 1 in 1,292 |
| Nebraska | #434 | 5 | 1 in 1,618 |
| Louisiana | #494 | 10 | 1 in 2,099 |
| Mississippi | #553 | 5 | 1 in 2,219 |
| Kentucky | #642 | 6 | 1 in 3,043 |
| Alabama | #672 | 6 | 1 in 3,229 |
| Tennessee | #844 | 7 | 1 in 4,434 |
| Missouri | #958 | 5 | 1 in 5,425 |
| Georgia | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Texas | #1,928 | 11 | 1 in 15,208 |
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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 Lakyn
- 482 spots since 2024 (#1,966 → #1,484)
- 279 spots since 2020 (#1,763 → #1,484)
- 9 spots since 2015 (#1,493 → #1,484)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2025 at #1,484 (144 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,162 girls born in 2025 were named Lakyn (0.01%)
- 36.9% of all girls named Lakyn (1,146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 80 | #3,483 (1988) | #5,938 |
| 1990s | 501 | #2,127 (1993) | #2,601 |
| 2000s | 642 | #2,213 (2007) | #2,658 |
| 2010s | 1,146 | #1,493 (2015) | #1,844 |
| 2020s | 734 | #1,484 (2025) | #1,699 |
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.
Lakyn in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 12,221 of them was named Lakyn, which outranked 91.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,541Teegan146
- #1,541Vida146
- #1,541Zaynab146
- #1,545Lakyn145
- #1,545Amilia145
- #1,545Cleo145
- #1,545Jael145
- #1,550Adalie144
- #1,550Caleigh144
- #1,550Darlene144
Tied with 4 names at #1,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 237,217 of them was named Lakyn, which outranked 37.9% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).