Lakai
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 26 babies a year in the US.
Lakai by the numbers
Lakai was given to 26 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 32 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Lakai
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lakai. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Lakai
Names that are said the same way as Lakai, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Laakea6 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lakai
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