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“Modern coinage — an elaboration of 'lake' with a -yn ending” — Modern coinage origin
Girl's name · #1489 in the US (2025) · Trending
Lakyn is climbing: on the charts since 1985, it reached #1489 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 140 girls given the name last year. Roughly 3,100 have carried it all-time. In Oklahoma it runs about 5× its national rate. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1980s and 1990s, strongest in the Midwest today.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Similar names: Sedona · Laken · Eowyn · Laynie · Hollyn · Chozyn
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