Message: "Laken" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Laken

by Anneza

8/14/2006, 3:02 AM

Any information on this strange name? All I know is that it exists, and I've only seen it used in the USA ... but with the global village globalising daily, no doubt it'll pop up elsewhere quite soon, if it hasn't already.

Another thing: Is it unisex? Or one or the other? Can't guess from its appearance!

Thanks

#Laken

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

8/23/2006, 10:16 AM

Laken was originally a surname, a spelling variation of Lakin. Lakin can either be an English surname with the same derivation as Larkin (diminutive of Lawrence), or a Yiddish surname ultimately derived from Leyke, a form of Leah. Though it is a unisex name, it has been predominantly female in the USA ever since the television soap opera Santa Barbara featured a female character called Laken Lockridge between 1984 and 1991:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086793/fullcredits

- Summer +2

8/14/2006, 7:01 AM

In Holland 'laken' is a word meaning something like 'cloth', so I think it is a very weird name. I guess it is mostly a girlsname. These sites know the name:

http://www.thenamemachine.com/baby-names-girls/Laken.html
http://www.behindthename.com/submit/view.php?name=laken

- Anneza +1

8/14/2006, 10:59 PM

In Afrikaans it's a bedsheet!

- Mar (X-Mar)

8/17/2006, 12:25 AM

in Dutch too

the dictionary says cloth, but I've only heard it used as a bedsheet

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