In 2025, 32 US girls were named Lanae, making it the 4,415th most common girls’ name of the year, up 680 places from #5,095 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 26 girls named Lanae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,998, reached in 1992. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 2007. For comparison, it was #3,740 in 2015 and #3,153 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lanae in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 2,951 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 551 babies named Lanae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US girls were named Lanae; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Laina (3,569 babies since 1880), Layna (3,196 babies since 1880) and Lanaya (1,435 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lanaeya are summarised on this page.