Meaning not yet researched.
Lainee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,618 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Lainee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,618 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lainee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,618 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 129 (2025).
In 2025, 129 US girls were named Lainee, making it the 1,618th most common girls’ name of the year, up 143 places from #1,761 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 115 girls named Lainee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,618, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #4,666 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lainee in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 1,559 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 550 babies named Lainee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 731 US girls were named Lainee; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,459 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lainee ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #374 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lainey (28,431 babies since 1880), Laney (14,360 babies since 1880), Lanie (5,637 babies since 1880) and Lannie (3,424 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lainee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 12 | #374 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #448 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #474 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #632 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,088 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,580 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,946 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,307 | — | — |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,895 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,666 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,485 | — | — |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,991 | — | — |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,822 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,728 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,722 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,082 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,689 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,437 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,821 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,830 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,259 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,060 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,314 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).