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Nice thought, but I doubt it somehow. Sounds more like an American generalisation: we are all ecofriendly bunnyhuggers; lakes are decorative parts of the natural environment; Lake sounds unfinished as a name; lots of names end in N, like Martin and Jane; let's turn Lake into a name by adding an N.
There was a brilliantly irate poster on a Babycenter poll recently who said: What if you have other children? Would they be Brooken, Creeken, Marshen, Streamen ...?

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Laken is also (bed)sheet in Afrikaans, by the way. What would a small German sheet be - ein Lakenchen?