Lakenya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lakenya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 253K(measured from records)
- LRLiberia≈1 in 115K
- GHGhana≈1 in 158K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakenya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Lakenya | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,313 | 1 in 253K | 1.3K | Lakenya | 176 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Lakenya | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 973K | — | Lakenya | 12 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 785K | — | Lakenya | 1 |
| LR Liberia | #724 | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Lakenya | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Lakenya | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,230 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 87 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 73 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 71 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 67 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 60 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 59 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 53 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lakenya a male or female name?
- Lakenya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lakenya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Lakenya in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lakenya.
- How common is the name Lakenya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,313 people named Lakenya in 2020, about 1 in 253 thousand residents.
- How common is Lakenya compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Lakenya is the 724th most common given name of 2,671 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakenyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lakenya” — the 724th most common given name in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.