Meaning not yet researched.
Lainie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,232 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,232 in 1970; #3,122 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lainie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,122 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #1,232.
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Lainie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,232 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 91 (1970).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Lainie, making it the 3,122nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 191 places from #3,313 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 48 girls named Lainie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,232, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #5,052 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lainie in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 21 babies. In all, 1,967 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 486 babies named Lainie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US girls were named Lainie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lainey (28,431 babies since 1880), Lani (7,556 babies since 1880), Lanie (5,637 babies since 1880) and Lannie (3,424 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lainie in the open dataset we use.
Lainie is listed as a nickname for Elaine.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,808 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,685 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,411 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,599 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,509 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,297 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,072 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,230 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,520 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,580 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,408 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,878 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,077 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,858 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,993 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,769 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,012 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,986 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,710 | — | — |
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).