Lark
- #4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 87.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1949 · 66 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,862since 1945
Lark over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #4,352 | 32 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #2,958 | 56 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #3,004 | 54 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,873 | 58 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | — | |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #3,515 | 14 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 | #2,706 | 10 |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #2,234 | 26 | #2,530 | 11 |
| 1958 | #1,679 | 41 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #2,276 | 24 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,931 | 31 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,667 | 38 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 | #2,942 | 8 |
| 1953 | #1,358 | 51 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,225 | 60 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,266 | 54 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,123 | 67 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,109 | 66 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
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| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
| 1885 | — | #765 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1945
The first year at least five girls were named Lark! It came in at #3,676, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1948, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lark is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Lark in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Lark
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,573 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #4,352)
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1949 at #1,109 (66 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,568
- Highest: 1 in 25,568 girls born in 1950 were named Lark (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,109 in 1949, was only 1 in 25,922 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
- 23.1% of all girls named Lark (430) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1949
- Mostly boys until 1948, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 73 | #1,109 (1949) | #2,393 |
| 1950s | 430 | #1,123 (1950) | #1,641 |
| 1960s | 133 | #2,432 (1960) | #3,829 |
| 1970s | 141 | #2,955 (1971) | #4,649 |
| 1980s | 121 | #4,005 (1981) | #6,118 |
| 1990s | 124 | #5,221 (1995) | #7,235 |
| 2000s | 145 | #6,350 (2008) | #8,174 |
| 2010s | 398 | #2,873 (2017) | #4,056 |
| 2020s | 297 | #2,779 (2020) | #3,312 |
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.
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