Lake

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lake: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lake: Recorded since 1997, it reached #433 in 2021, and it stood at #790 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#433highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3860
2015	#3615
2016	#2233
2017	#3583
2018	#1788
2019	#1940
2020	#2163
2021	#5581
2022	#2178
2023	#2063
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 20 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #790 among girls in Scotland, #4843 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Lake appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 336 births with the name.

Lake across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lake's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#625 (2023)	#898 (2024)	20 of 28	336 (1997–2024)	57 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3860 (2008)	#1788 (2018)	#4843 (2024)	11 of 17	103 (2008–2024)	16 (2018)

Lake by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lake in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	30	5 of 10	6
2010s	95	9 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	208	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lake appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021.

Lake's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#898	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#625	57	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#901	34	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#751	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#821	37	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1324	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1903	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #433, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 57 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Millar · #433, 16y
Ashlynn · #432, 16y
Kaley · #432, 23y
Layla-Rose · #432, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ash · #433, 28y
Brodi · #433, 21y
Cobi · #433, 29y
Jadon · #433, 28y

Lake was ranked #433 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lake and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lake without appearing here.

Lake moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3860 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2233 and #5785.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2178 and #5669.
Isak Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1324 and #4749.
Aria Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3416 and #3039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1902 and #4747.

Moved ahead of Lake

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1785.
Freddie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3318.
Cooper Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #4709 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3695.

Moved the opposite way to Lake

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Lake

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Lake went from #2859 to #898 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #433 in Northern Ireland in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lake

Lake at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lake across 2 official records

Lake by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lake appears in

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Lake at a glance

Lake across 2 official records

Lake by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lake

Lake and the names beside it

Lake moved ahead of

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