Laken

What Laken means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Laken yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 256 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Laken?

US: Rising: up from #1609 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 256 girls got the name (#987 that year). First in the US records in 1984.

How common

• About 1 in 6,278 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (1.85 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.93 per 1,000 girls), AL (0.66 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Laken is #987 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 68.1% of US babies named Laken were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lakyn144 US
• Laikyn118 US
• Layken74 US
• Laiken71 US
• Laykin20 US
• Lakin17 US
• Lakynn14 US
• Lakeyn11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Laken

Girls

• Margaret#112“pearl”^*
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Blair#169“field, plain”^*
• Scottie#126Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,533 in 2015, #126 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*

For a brother

• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*
• Walter#251“ruler + army, host”^*
• George#126“farmer, earth worker”^*
• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Laken’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.