Meaning not yet researched.
Lanie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #795 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #795 in 1880; #2,227 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lanie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,227 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #795.
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Lanie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #795 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 225 (2006).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Lanie, making it the 2,227th most common girls’ name of the year, down 395 places from #1,832 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 110 girls named Lanie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #795, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 225, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,969 in 2015 and #4,534 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lanie in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 5,637 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,810 babies named Lanie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 969 US girls were named Lanie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lanie ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #807 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Laney (14,360 babies since 1880), Lanny (9,644 babies since 1880), Lani (7,556 babies since 1880) and Lannie (3,424 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Layanie 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: Layanie (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 Lanie 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #807 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,106 | #1,334 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,129 | #904 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,336 | #1,567 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,596 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,797 | #2,000 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2015 | 102 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2010 | 183 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2009 | 155 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 2008 | 189 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2007 | 207 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2005 | 212 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2004 | 201 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2003 | 209 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2002 | 165 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,411 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,145 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,480 | 5 | #5,127 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,207 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,841 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,305 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,344 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,401 | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,217 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,760 | 5 | #3,990 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,357 | 5 | #4,019 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,048 | 5 | #3,694 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,602 | — | — |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,274 | — | — |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,443 | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,191 | 5 | #4,128 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #979 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #929 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #925 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #905 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #991 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #983 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #795 | — | — |
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).