Laker
#4,094 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Laker has been given to 243 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #4,094 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Laker, 2025
1 in 128,000
Laker 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Laker?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 128,000
- 26 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 65,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,094
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 88,382 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Laker sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Laker was born before 2020 — so the typical Laker is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 60.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 233
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 60.1% of all recorded uses (140).
Is Laker 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
- −61
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +122
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 96.3%
- Peak was 2024 (27)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Laker
Laker is not the most common spelling — Luke is, with 31.8% against Laker's 0.02%.
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 Laker is used
Across 1910–2025, Laker was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Laker has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Laker around the world
Where Laker ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2017–2025#3,256in 2025
- Ireland2023–2024#655in 2024
- Canada2022–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia2010–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Laker by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Laker
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Laker
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.