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Lakelyn vs Laken

American parents have registered 8,499 Lakens since 1880, against 3,014 Lakelyns. But in 2025 it was Lakelyn that was commoner, 429 babies to 376.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lakelyn against Laken, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lakelyn Laken

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 42 years in which either name was published, Laken for 39 years and Lakelyn for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lakelyn Laken
Total US births 3,0148,499
Most in one year 429376
Babies in 2025 429376
Estimated living today 3,0008,400
Median age today 416
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 673rd girls987th girls
Rank in 2025 673rd987th
First recorded 19971984
Girls / boys 2,969 / 456,240 / 2,259

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 Lakens alive today are over 16; half the Lakelyns are over 4. That is 12 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: Lakelyn and Laken.