Meaning not yet researched.
Lainey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5,738 in 2025. Its best rank was #30 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.9% of babies named Lainey in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#30 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lainey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5,738 girls in 2025. Peak: #30 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 5,738 (2025).
In 2025, 5,738 US girls were named Lainey, making it the 30th most common girls’ name of the year, up 8 places from #38 in 2024. That is 582 more than the 5,156 girls named Lainey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #30, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,738. For comparison, it was #576 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lainey in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 28,431 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 18,616 babies named Lainey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 21,304 US girls were named Lainey; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 5,738. In 2025 that was about 1 in 280 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lainey ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #1 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 48 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Laney (14,360 babies since 1880), Lanny (9,644 babies since 1880), Lainie (1,967 babies since 1880) and Laynee (1,963 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lanee, Lanea and Laini are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lanee (875), Lanea (581), Laini (371), Lainy (197), Layney (190), Laneya (137), Lany (130), Lanney (33).
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 Lainey 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 50 | #1 | — |
| North Dakota | 39 | #2 | — |
| West Virginia | 68 | #3 | #250 |
| Montana | 38 | #4 | — |
| Kentucky | 160 | #5 | #279 |
| Idaho | 72 | #7 | #301 |
| Iowa | 101 | #8 | — |
| Ohio | 334 | #8 | #424 |
| Utah | 137 | #9 | #537 |
| Michigan | 250 | #9 | #490 |
| Kansas | 99 | #9 | #695 |
| Indiana | 190 | #9 | #343 |
| Wisconsin | 162 | #10 | #410 |
| Mississippi | 63 | #10 | #630 |
| Wyoming | 13 | #10 | — |
| Minnesota | 157 | #12 | #398 |
| Pennsylvania | 281 | #13 | #494 |
| Nebraska | 52 | #15 | #293 |
| South Carolina | 99 | #15 | #488 |
| New Hampshire | 40 | #15 | — |
| Alabama | 112 | #16 | — |
| Missouri | 145 | #17 | #408 |
| Maine | 30 | #19 | — |
| Oregon | 73 | #21 | #446 |
| Tennessee | 177 | #21 | #431 |
| Arkansas | 59 | #21 | #303 |
| Oklahoma | 80 | #21 | #405 |
| Vermont | 12 | #24 | — |
| North Carolina | 209 | #24 | #669 |
| Washington | 133 | #29 | #737 |
| Arizona | 122 | #33 | #910 |
| Georgia | 159 | #36 | #542 |
| Virginia | 136 | #39 | #754 |
| Alaska | 11 | #42 | — |
| Colorado | 94 | #43 | #596 |
| Illinois | 165 | #43 | #591 |
| Texas | 465 | #45 | #551 |
| Nevada | 39 | #47 | — |
| Maryland | 70 | #47 | #844 |
| New Mexico | 21 | #47 | — |
| Louisiana | 60 | #52 | #382 |
| Florida | 243 | #59 | #700 |
| Delaware | 12 | #62 | — |
| Massachusetts | 76 | #68 | #715 |
| Connecticut | 34 | #74 | — |
| New Jersey | 91 | #78 | #1,011 |
| New York | 163 | #85 | #1,177 |
| California | 325 | #94 | #1,278 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #108 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,738 | #30 | 5 | #13,116 |
| 2024 | 5,156 | #38 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,941 | #54 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,698 | #174 | 5 | #13,508 |
| 2021 | 1,229 | #250 | — | — |
| 2020 | 844 | #366 | — | — |
| 2019 | 822 | #381 | — | — |
| 2018 | 684 | #460 | — | — |
| 2017 | 615 | #510 | — | — |
| 2016 | 577 | #542 | — | — |
| 2015 | 531 | #576 | — | — |
| 2014 | 514 | #585 | — | — |
| 2013 | 490 | #584 | — | — |
| 2012 | 516 | #568 | — | — |
| 2011 | 544 | #533 | — | — |
| 2010 | 476 | #618 | — | — |
| 2009 | 416 | #700 | — | — |
| 2008 | 433 | #698 | — | — |
| 2007 | 440 | #669 | — | — |
| 2006 | 388 | #725 | — | — |
| 2005 | 410 | #679 | — | — |
| 2004 | 320 | #796 | — | — |
| 2003 | 254 | #928 | — | — |
| 2002 | 183 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2001 | 173 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2000 | 163 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,182 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,626 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,385 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,578 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,076 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,626 | — | — |
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).