Meaning not yet researched.
Lana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 768 in 2025. Its best rank was #188 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #188 in 1948; #406 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#406 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #188.
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Lana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 768 girls in 2025. Peak: #188 in 1948 · most girls in one year: 1,465 (1948).
In 2025, 768 US girls were named Lana, making it the 406th most common girls’ name of the year, down 32 places from #374 in 2024. That is 62 fewer than the 830 girls named Lana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #188, reached in 1948. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,465. For comparison, it was #356 in 2015 and #205 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lana in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 57,449 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 10,209 babies named Lana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,086 US girls were named Lana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 872. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,093 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lana ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #74 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lena (146,805 babies since 1880), Ana (111,960 babies since 1880), Alana (68,295 babies since 1880) and Liana (20,666 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Launa, Lanna and Svetlana 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Latvian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Launa (2,649), Lanna (2,117), Svetlana (928), Lanay (580), Lanai (556), Lahna (490), Lanah (476), Laiana (255), Lannah (229), Laena (137), Olana (95), Layona (76), and more.
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 Lana 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 10 | #74 | — |
| California | 134 | #247 | #312 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #271 | #378 |
| Illinois | 37 | #292 | #222 |
| Washington | 25 | #294 | #257 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #308 | #243 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #326 | #211 |
| Oregon | 11 | #340 | #360 |
| Florida | 53 | #346 | #249 |
| Michigan | 26 | #346 | #280 |
| Nevada | 8 | #355 | #344 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #368 | #367 |
| Ohio | 30 | #381 | #355 |
| Alabama | 13 | #383 | #589 |
| Arizona | 17 | #403 | #266 |
| Utah | 10 | #426 | #794 |
| New York | 40 | #434 | #416 |
| Colorado | 13 | #444 | #302 |
| Idaho | 5 | #449 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #464 | #549 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #478 | #469 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #483 | #270 |
| Texas | 65 | #498 | #400 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #498 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #500 | #470 |
| Georgia | 22 | #523 | #437 |
| Missouri | 11 | #539 | #409 |
| Indiana | 12 | #563 | #494 |
| Iowa | 5 | #633 | #657 |
| Virginia | 12 | #634 | #306 |
| Kansas | 5 | #636 | #494 |
| Maryland | 7 | #694 | #349 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #705 | #544 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #784 | #719 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #855 | #392 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 768 | #406 | — | — |
| 2024 | 830 | #374 | — | — |
| 2023 | 737 | #416 | — | — |
| 2022 | 750 | #421 | — | — |
| 2021 | 828 | #377 | — | — |
| 2020 | 793 | #393 | — | — |
| 2019 | 814 | #384 | — | — |
| 2018 | 872 | #360 | — | — |
| 2017 | 847 | #369 | — | — |
| 2016 | 847 | #391 | — | — |
| 2015 | 922 | #356 | — | — |
| 2014 | 943 | #352 | — | — |
| 2013 | 732 | #414 | — | — |
| 2012 | 708 | #441 | — | — |
| 2011 | 608 | #488 | — | — |
| 2010 | 628 | #480 | — | — |
| 2009 | 707 | #446 | — | — |
| 2008 | 731 | #434 | — | — |
| 2007 | 813 | #405 | — | — |
| 2006 | 773 | #412 | — | — |
| 2005 | 705 | #437 | — | — |
| 2004 | 640 | #465 | — | — |
| 2003 | 573 | #501 | — | — |
| 2002 | 380 | #668 | — | — |
| 2001 | 235 | #942 | — | — |
| 2000 | 209 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1999 | 206 | #999 | — | — |
| 1998 | 186 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1997 | 179 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1996 | 182 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1995 | 206 | #917 | — | — |
| 1994 | 192 | #968 | — | — |
| 1993 | 217 | #891 | — | — |
| 1992 | 231 | #859 | — | — |
| 1991 | 233 | #859 | — | — |
| 1990 | 251 | #799 | — | — |
| 1989 | 304 | #668 | — | — |
| 1988 | 328 | #611 | — | — |
| 1987 | 324 | #602 | — | — |
| 1986 | 302 | #621 | — | — |
| 1985 | 337 | #578 | — | — |
| 1984 | 376 | #516 | — | — |
| 1983 | 344 | #545 | — | — |
| 1982 | 334 | #555 | — | — |
| 1981 | 379 | #521 | — | — |
| 1980 | 456 | #466 | — | — |
| 1979 | 417 | #489 | — | — |
| 1978 | 511 | #405 | — | — |
| 1977 | 474 | #428 | — | — |
| 1976 | 384 | #479 | — | — |
| 1975 | 445 | #442 | — | — |
| 1974 | 457 | #428 | — | — |
| 1973 | 460 | #425 | — | — |
| 1972 | 600 | #365 | — | — |
| 1971 | 707 | #352 | — | — |
| 1970 | 780 | #336 | — | — |
| 1969 | 858 | #308 | 5 | #4,743 |
| 1968 | 804 | #311 | — | — |
| 1967 | 919 | #280 | — | — |
| 1966 | 876 | #286 | — | — |
| 1965 | 781 | #322 | — | — |
| 1964 | 883 | #311 | — | — |
| 1963 | 817 | #330 | — | — |
| 1962 | 787 | #335 | — | — |
| 1961 | 819 | #329 | — | — |
| 1960 | 776 | #339 | — | — |
| 1959 | 724 | #354 | — | — |
| 1958 | 672 | #355 | — | — |
| 1957 | 650 | #356 | — | — |
| 1956 | 680 | #336 | — | — |
| 1955 | 770 | #308 | — | — |
| 1954 | 811 | #298 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,009 | #256 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,104 | #237 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,198 | #221 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,314 | #205 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,318 | #206 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,465 | #188 | 5 | #3,958 |
| 1947 | 1,364 | #195 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,300 | #189 | — | — |
| 1945 | 946 | #208 | — | — |
| 1944 | 901 | #219 | — | — |
| 1943 | 999 | #208 | 5 | #3,812 |
| 1942 | 857 | #224 | — | — |
| 1941 | 625 | #255 | — | — |
| 1940 | 424 | #306 | — | — |
| 1939 | 87 | #732 | — | — |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1893 | 14 | #813 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #939 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #924 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #990 | — | — |
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).