Laken as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Laken

What is the meaning of the name Laken ?

The baby name Laken is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced LAY-ken.

Laken is English in Origin.

Laken is best treated as a modern American English formation from Lake, the nature word and surname, with the productive final -n seen in late twentieth-century names such as Braden and Kellen. English lake is recorded in Middle English as lake/lak; it continues Old English lacu in the sense stream, pool, or watercourse, while medieval usage was reinforced by Old French lac, from Latin lacus, pond or lake. The literal sense is therefore from the lake or lake-associated.

As a first name, Laken belongs to the American surname-and-nature-name pattern rather than to an older saint’s or biblical tradition. It appears for both sexes, though recent U.S. use leans feminine; spellings such as Layken, Laiken, Laykin, and Lakyn reflect contemporary respelling habits. The soap opera Santa Barbara used Laken Lockridge in the 1980s, while NFL player Laken Tomlinson gives the name a male public bearer.