Larkin
Larkin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 454th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201964 births
- Best rank
- #454in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,463people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,486 boys have been named Larkin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 64 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Larkin is used for both sexes: 44% of its bearers are girls (1,977), most of them born around 2006.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Larkin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 92 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 190 | |
| 1920s | 259 | |
| 1930s | 157 | |
| 1940s | 180 | |
| 1950s | 176 | |
| 1960s | 129 | |
| 1970s | 99 | |
| 1980s | 109 | |
| 1990s | 139 | |
| 2000s | 219 | |
| 2010s | 425 | |
| 2020s | 217 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Larkin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Larkin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Enospeak 1921
- Leanderpeak 2023
- Enochpeak 2023
- Emmetpeak 2015
- Abnerpeak 2024
- Hirampeak 1920
- Alonzopeak 2022
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.