Meaning not yet researched.
Laney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 421 in 2025. Its best rank was #482 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #482 in 2005; #674 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Laney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#674 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #482.
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Laney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 421 girls in 2025. Peak: #482 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 640 (2006).
In 2025, 421 US girls were named Laney, making it the 674th most common girls’ name of the year, up 15 places from #689 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 411 girls named Laney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #482, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 640, in 2006. For comparison, it was #643 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Laney in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 14,360 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,148 babies named Laney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,212 US girls were named Laney; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 458. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Laney ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #293 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lainey (28,431 babies since 1880), Lanny (9,644 babies since 1880), Lani (7,556 babies since 1880) and Lanie (5,637 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lania, Laneah and Lanni 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: Lania (962), Laneah (109), Lanni (16), Laneyah (13), Lanieya (13), Laniee (6), Lanye (5).
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 Laney 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 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 8 | #293 | — |
| Nebraska | 7 | #319 | #343 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #327 | #504 |
| Utah | 13 | #350 | #795 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #350 | #236 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #418 | #257 |
| Georgia | 26 | #440 | #861 |
| Iowa | 7 | #468 | #321 |
| Colorado | 12 | #478 | #597 |
| Indiana | 14 | #503 | #495 |
| Alabama | 10 | #510 | #290 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #519 | #805 |
| Virginia | 15 | #528 | #818 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #529 | #472 |
| Arizona | 13 | #532 | #1,037 |
| Ohio | 19 | #549 | #529 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #584 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #607 | #566 |
| Michigan | 13 | #622 | #610 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #625 | #379 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #660 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #692 | #242 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #749 | #717 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #791 | #372 |
| Florida | 20 | #816 | #1,756 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #852 | #564 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #857 | #552 |
| Texas | 34 | #872 | #786 |
| Maryland | 5 | #928 | #985 |
| California | 22 | #1,169 | #1,190 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,185 | #896 |
| New York | 9 | #1,465 | #2,120 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 421 | #674 | — | — |
| 2024 | 411 | #689 | — | — |
| 2023 | 447 | #658 | — | — |
| 2022 | 419 | #705 | — | — |
| 2021 | 458 | #652 | — | — |
| 2020 | 444 | #650 | — | — |
| 2019 | 415 | #698 | — | — |
| 2018 | 388 | #730 | — | — |
| 2017 | 439 | #669 | — | — |
| 2016 | 370 | #771 | — | — |
| 2015 | 445 | #643 | — | — |
| 2014 | 449 | #637 | — | — |
| 2013 | 418 | #678 | — | — |
| 2012 | 454 | #630 | — | — |
| 2011 | 557 | #522 | — | — |
| 2010 | 540 | #545 | — | — |
| 2009 | 561 | #537 | — | — |
| 2008 | 543 | #569 | — | — |
| 2007 | 588 | #532 | 5 | #13,564 |
| 2006 | 640 | #486 | — | — |
| 2005 | 635 | #482 | — | — |
| 2004 | 527 | #544 | 7 | #9,531 |
| 2003 | 495 | #559 | — | — |
| 2002 | 407 | #628 | — | — |
| 2001 | 408 | #617 | — | — |
| 2000 | 332 | #704 | — | — |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,559 | 5 | #10,164 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,709 | — | — |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,666 | 5 | #9,009 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,680 | 5 | #8,923 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,288 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,377 | — | — |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,624 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,166 | 6 | #5,939 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,719 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,790 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,757 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,068 | 5 | #5,532 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,415 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,214 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,611 | 6 | #4,514 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,114 | 7 | #3,535 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,802 | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,106 | 7 | #3,405 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,352 | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,302 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,230 | 7 | #3,510 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,099 | 7 | #3,491 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,711 | 6 | #3,868 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,042 | 10 | #2,783 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,158 | 7 | #3,441 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,592 | 7 | #3,421 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,632 | 12 | #2,438 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,300 | 6 | #3,713 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,471 | 10 | #2,669 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,810 | 7 | #3,279 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,986 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,203 | 8 | #2,959 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #1,978 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,924 | 10 | #2,532 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,957 | 14 | #2,071 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,878 | 11 | #2,442 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,832 | 10 | #2,484 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,881 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,814 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,616 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,570 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,092 | 8 | #2,773 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,366 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,092 | 7 | #3,034 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,791 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,642 | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,932 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,585 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,598 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,056 | 5 | #4,462 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,763 | 7 | #3,686 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,842 | 5 | #4,666 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,796 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,956 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,419 | 7 | #3,357 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,379 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #982 | — | — |
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).