Lakin
Lakin is a girl's name that peaked in 1996, when it was the 1,625th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 2,300 Lakins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lakin boys named Lakin
Girls and boys called Lakin
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,916 girls and 439 boys in all, and in 2024 the split was 20 to 7.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 40 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,355
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 1,625th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,546th
- First recorded
- 1985
- Girls / boys
- 1,916 / 439
How old the living Lakins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,355 babies given the name since 1985, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Lakin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lakin is most concentrated in Kentucky (10.9×), Kansas (10.4×), West Virginia (9.3×), Mississippi (8.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular girls’ names the year Lakin peaked:
Related names
Lakin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.