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
- 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
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 | #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 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 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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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
See more about Lark
- 836 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #4,352)
- 1,573 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #4,352)
- 437 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #4,352)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1949 at #1,109 (66 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 23.1% of all girls named Lark (430) were born in this decade
- 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.
Lark in 1949
Top girls' names in 1949
Top boys' names in 1949
More about 1949
girls
1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 25,922 of them was named Lark, which outranked 81.7% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,104Hortencia67
- #1,104Lani67
- #1,104Marlyn67
- #1,109Lark66
- #1,109Allyson66
- #1,109Beatriz66
- #1,109Debrah66
- #1,121Adelaide65
- #1,121Albertha65
- #1,121Dina65
Tied with 11 names at #1,109; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,773,939 boys got a published name in 1949; 1 in 295,657 of them was named Lark, which outranked 21.6% of the 4,205 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,019Woodward7
- #3,019Wynne7
- #3,019Zackary7
- #3,298Lark6
- #3,298Abron6
- #3,298Acey6
- #3,298Adolpho6
- #3,690Abundio5
- #3,690Alberta5
- #3,690Aldine5
Tied with 391 names at #3,298; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.