girls:
1.9k births since 1990
#3932 (31st percentile)
boys:
56 births since 2016
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1990
#5848 (24th percentile)
The name Laikyn is the #5,848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,916 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,932 (31.2% percentile) for all time with 1,860 births since 1990. For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 2016.
Laikyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 2016 for boys).
The name Laikyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Laikyn reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 81 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 81 births per million (ranked 15.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Laikyn ranks #824 for girls (13.0% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 90.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Laikyn reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #906) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laikyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Laikyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.1% confident that Laikyn is pronounced as LAY-kihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAY-kuhn, at 17.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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