How popular is “Laken” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Laken” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Laken” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Laken” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Laken” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1984	19	0.000005446	19		100%
1985	110	0.00003082	110		100%
1986	93	0.000026145	93		100%
1987	123	0.000034113	123		100%
1988	118	0.000031935	118		100%
1989	130	0.000033815	130		100%
1990	206	0.000052119	197	9	91%
1991	240	0.000061613	232	8	93%
1992	218	0.000056752	207	11	90%
1993	232	0.000061534	224	8	93%
1994	226	0.000060791	214	12	89%
1995	224	0.000061166	213	11	90%
1996	178	0.000048805	164	14	84%
1997	190	0.000052403	178	12	87%
1998	193	0.000052471	179	14	85%
1999	170	0.000046022	155	15	82%
2000	146	0.000038625	128	18	75%
2001	152	0.000040605	133	19	75%
2002	149	0.000039858	128	21	72%
2003	146	0.000038398	121	25	66%
2004	167	0.000043707	135	32	62%
2005	157	0.000040834	120	37	53%
2006	190	0.000048026	139	51	46%
2007	215	0.000053781	145	70	35%
2008	178	0.000045285	102	76	15%
2009	183	0.000047904	98	85	7%
2010	198	0.000053575	110	88	11%
2011	165	0.000045109	111	54	35%
2012	197	0.000053864	111	86	13%
2013	215	0.000058974	133	82	24%
2014	205	0.00005531	108	97	5%
2015	241	0.000065119	133	108	10%
2016	261	0.000071142	171	90	31%
2017	237	0.000066272	131	106	11%
2018	269	0.00007651	162	107	20%
2019	255	0.000073467	141	114	11%
2020	332	0.000099384	195	137	17%
2021	318	0.000093862	178	140	12%
2022	312	0.000092222	160	152	3%
2023	249	0.000075199	140	109	12%
2024	314	0.000094337	193	121	23%

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