girls:
5 births since 2023
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
180 births since 2005
#4406 (4th percentile)
overall:
185 births since 2005
#7554 (2nd percentile)
The name Laker is the #7,554 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 185 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,406 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 180 births since 2005. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2023.
Laker first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (2005 for boys and 2023 for girls). Birth data for Laker is available in 14 out of the 19 years between 2005 and 2023 (14 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Laker has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 78.3% of babies named Laker were boys.
For boys, Laker reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #909) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Laker ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Laker reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #947) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Laker is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #947 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laker".
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