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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#243 · 1 in 782
- Oklahoma#365 · 1 in 1,352
- Arkansas#431 · 1 in 1,554
- Kentucky#502 · 1 in 2,128
- Alabama#832 · 1 in 3,815
Best ever in a state: #171 in West Virginia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #243 | 7 | 1 in 782 |
| Oklahoma | #365 | 11 | 1 in 1,352 |
| Arkansas | #431 | 7 | 1 in 1,554 |
| Kentucky | #502 | 8 | 1 in 2,128 |
| Alabama | #832 | 5 | 1 in 3,815 |
| Virginia | #862 | 8 | 1 in 4,322 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,118 | 7 | 1 in 6,969 |
| Tennessee | #1,125 | 5 | 1 in 6,245 |
| Texas | #1,399 | 17 | 1 in 9,146 |
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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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 12,720 of them was named Lakyn, which outranked 90.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,612Natalee130
- #1,612Rebel130
- #1,612Reece130
- #1,622Lakyn129
- #1,622Aleyah129
- #1,622Kaliah129
- #1,622Karmen129
- #1,630Alaysia128
- #1,630Avaya128
- #1,630Hafsa128
Tied with 7 names at #1,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.