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.
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 1984
Top girls' names in 1984
More about 1984
girls
1,683,817 girls got a published name in 1984; 1 in 88,622 of them was named Laken, which outranked 67.2% of the 12,181 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,874Yoana20
- #3,874Youa20
- #3,874Zenia20
- #3,990Laken19
- #3,990Abigale19
- #3,990Aishah19
- #3,990Alan19
- #4,166Allisa18
- #4,166Allyn18
- #4,166Alonda18
Tied with 175 names at #3,990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.