Lake is a distinctive choice, ranked #4844 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Lake in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#4844
About the Name Lake
Lake has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 2681 places in five years. It was most popular in 2018 at #1788 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a regular feature in UK records since 1997.
Lake is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Lake
Unlikely. With around 4 UK babies named Lake per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Lake in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Lake has been declining in UK popularity, dropping 2681 places in the last five years. Its peak was #1788 in 2018. Choosing it now means he is likely to be among the last of his generation with this name.
Lake is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Lake include: Oliver Lake — Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist.; Scott A. Lake — Scott A..
Lake does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Lakes in the wild.
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UK babies named Lake (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
< 1
In a school of 600
↓ 2681 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Lake
Likely around 1 other Lake in the class
UK Popularity (1997–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Lake
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute.
Scott A. Lake is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who, on April 4, 2019, became the sixth trainer in North American racing history to record 6,000 wins.
Leonard Thomas Lake, also known as Leonard Hill and a variety of other aliases, was an American survivalist and serial killer who raped, tortured and murdered an estimated eleven to twenty-five victims with his accomplice Charles Ng at a remote cabin near Wilseyville, California, 150 miles east of San Francisco, between 1983 and 1985. Lake was never convicted of murder, as he swallowed cyanide pills that he had sewn into his clothing and died four days after his arrest.