Lakenya
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lakenya has been given to 1,683 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 87 recorded.
Babies named Lakenya, 2019
1 in 579,000
Lakenya over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lakenya?
Lakenya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lakenya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakenya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakenyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakenya was born before 1985 — so the typical Lakenya is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 33.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,683
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (561).
Is Lakenya rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (87)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Lakenya
Lakenya is not the most common spelling — Makenna is, with 25.8% against Lakenya's 1.3%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Lakenya is used
Across 1910–2025, Lakenya was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 202,819 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Illinois1 in 100,000
- 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 7Michigan1 in 100,000
- 8South Carolina1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lakenya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lakenya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lakenya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lakenya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.