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Lake vs Lakendrick

American parents have registered 3,924 Lakes since 1880, against 861 Lakendricks. Lake is still ahead, with 114 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lake against Lakendrick, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lake Lakendrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Lake for 95 years and Lakendrick for 18 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Lake Lakendrick
Total US births 3,924861
Most in one year 15437
Babies in 2025 114under 5
Estimated living today 3,300830
Median age today 1332
Peak year 20241991
Best rank 1,620th boys2,019th boys
Rank in 2025 2,056thunranked
First recorded 18911973
Girls / boys 937 / 2,9870 / 861

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lakendricks alive today are over 32; half the Lakes are over 13. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lake and Lakendrick.