Laken

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Laken, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Hollis
• Farren
• Ocean
• Brooke
• Honor
• Arden
• River
• Kendall
• Meadow
• Fallon
• Greer
• Fawn

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Laken is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Cameroon

  Also written Läken

• Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden

  Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Lakén, Låkën

• Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Läkën, Lãkęn

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Laken is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Dutch, woollen broadcloth (fulled and woven fabric made of wool), very sought-after for clothing in the feudal era

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, sheet; bed sheet (linen used to cover mattresses or furniture, or sometimes instead of a blanket)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of lake

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Afrikaans, sheet, bedsheet

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Bokmål, a bedsheet

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dum, broadcloth

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Laken Tomlinsonb. 1992USAmerican football player
• Laken Paitaib. 2000NZNew Zealand rugby league footballer, born 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Laken mean, and where does it come from?

Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Worcs;. see Lakin . 2 English: see Lacon . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.

Is Laken a male or female name?

Laken is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

How do you pronounce Laken?

A machine transcription gives /lɑkən/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Laken have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Laken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laken.

Where is Laken most common?

Laken is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Laken?

In the United States, the national register counted 5,940 people named Laken in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.