Lakenya
Lakenya is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197987 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1969
- 1,683people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,683 girls have been named Lakenya in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 87 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 87 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 33%.
By decade
In 1979, its biggest year
Lakenya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Lakenya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nikkiapeak 1979
- Beronicapeak 1979
- Dustipeak 1980
- Terahpeak 1985
- Sachapeak 1977
- Kenyattapeak 1975
- Nikiapeak 1975
- Tameshapeak 1985
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.