Meaning not yet researched.
Lanaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,254 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,254 in 2004; #11,480 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lanaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,480 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,254.
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Lanaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,254 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 78 (2004).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Lanaya, making it the 11,480th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,103 places from #5,377 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 24 girls named Lanaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,254, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #4,455 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lanaya in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 6 babies. In all, 1,435 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 553 babies named Lanaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 254 US girls were named Lanaya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Lanae (2,951 babies since 1880) and Layana (889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lanayah, Lanaiya and Lanaiyah 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: Lanayah (281), Lanaiya (212), Lanaiyah (35), Lanayia (20).
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 Lanaya in the open dataset we use.
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 | 8 | #11,480 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,377 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,194 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,248 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,906 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,904 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,188 | — | — |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,823 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,968 | — | — |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,619 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,194 | — | — |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,016 | — | — |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,577 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,457 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,509 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,111 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,291 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,280 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,965 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,217 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,554 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,878 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,276 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,380 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,023 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,842 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,780 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,173 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,717 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,566 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,961 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,665 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,133 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,305 | — | — |
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).