Lakyn
#1,489 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lakyn has been given to 3,247 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #1,489 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 153 recorded.
Babies named Lakyn, 2025
1 in 23,000
Lakyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lakyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 23,000
- 144 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 11,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,489
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,959 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lakyn 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 15,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lakyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lakyn was born before 2013 — so the typical Lakyn is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,103
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (1,146).
Is Lakyn 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
- +485
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +276
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +11
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.94×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 94.1%
- Peak was 2015 (153)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lakyn
Lakyn is not the most common spelling — Taryn is, with 12.3% against Lakyn's 1.5%.
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 Lakyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Lakyn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 10,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1West Virginia1 in 1,333
- 2Oklahoma1 in 1,923
- 3Arkansas1 in 2,632
- 4Kentucky1 in 2,778
- 5Kansas1 in 2,941
- 6Mississippi1 in 4,348
- 7South Dakota1 in 5,882
- 8Louisiana1 in 6,250
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.
Lakyn around the world
Where Lakyn 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.
- Canada2016–2016#3,204in 2016
- South Australia1992–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lakyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Lakyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lakyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lakyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lakyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.