Gender: Unisex
Meaning: Black, pale, fair
Origin: Old English
Popularity: Ranked #1220 in 2024 with 193 babies born.
History: Laken emerged in the 2000s as a nature-inspired name combining lake imagery with a modern suffix. America's Great Lakes and countless wilderness lakes make water names deeply resonant. Laken represents the American love of nature-word naming.
Similar names: laiken, lakenzie, lakeyn, larken, layken, laakea, laena, lake
Name length: 5 letters
How common is Laken? About 1 in 10,600 babies born in 2024 were named Laken, or roughly 0.9 per day in the United States.
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