girls:
1.9k births since 1959
#3875 (32nd percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1880
#2555 (44th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1880
#4136 (47th percentile)
The name Larkin is the #4,136 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,376 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 46.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,555 (44.3% percentile) for all time with 2,444 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,875 (32.2% percentile) for all time with 1,932 births since 1959.
Larkin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1959 for girls). Birth data for Larkin is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (135 years for boys and 54 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 Larkin has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (55.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 48.9% of babies named Larkin were boys. Interestingly, until around 1983, the name was more popular for boys (93.3% boys from 1880 to 1982), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (63.9% girls from 1983 to 2023).
For boys, Larkin reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #858) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 135 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Larkin ranks #870 for boys (4.5% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 18.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Larkin reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #856) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 55 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Larkin ranks #904 for girls (4.5% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 49.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Larkin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Larkin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Larkin is pronounced as LAHR-kihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAHR-kuhn, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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