Lark
Lark is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195067 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1945
- 2,096people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,830 girls have been named Lark in the United States since 1945, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 67 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1950s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 266 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
By decade
In 1950, its biggest year
Lark was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1950 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Lark
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gwendolynnpeak 2023
- Camelliapeak 2024
- Melodypeak 2024
- Colettepeak 2024
- Roslynnpeak 2014
- Wynnepeak 2019
- Melodipeak 2021
- Glorypeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.