Entry № 5700 · English origin

Lake Lake — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAYK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Body of water (Lake Bell, actress)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "body of water (lake bell, actress)".

Lake is from the Old English lacu (stream, body of water). (an indie comedy about female voice actors competing in the male-dominated movie-trailer industry) has been widely praised as one of the standout indie debuts of the 2010s. Lake Bell's birth name is Lake Siegel Bell — the surname Bell came from her parents (her father Harvey Siegel is a real estate developer).

Body of water.

The name in its native script.

Lake
Transliteration
Lake
Pronunciation
/ leɪk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lake stands.

Lake does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lakes before her.

Real people
Lake Bell
American actress + director.
born 1979
Veronica Lake
American 1940s screen icon.
1922 – 1973
Ricki Lake
American TV personality.
born 1968
In fiction
Lake
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Lake.

The number behind Lake.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lake reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.