Lake
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 31 babies a year in England and Wales.
Lake by the numbers
In 2025, 31 babies in England and Wales were named Lake. In the US, 120 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 86 babies in 1996, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Lake
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 Lake. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Lake
Names that are said the same way as Lake, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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