Laken

Where Laken comes from

The dictionaries list Laken as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1984
    First appearance
    #3,990 among girls, 19 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #860
    232 babies named Laken — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1992
    Laken Tomlinson born
    American football player
  4. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,032.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Laken Tomlinson · American football player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.