Lainie
#3,122 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lainie has been given to 1,967 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #3,122 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Lainie, 2025
1 in 63,800
Lainie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lainie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 63,800
- 52 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 30,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,122
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 44,191 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lainie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lainie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lainies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lainie was born before 2001 — so the typical Lainie is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 24.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,967
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (486).
Is Lainie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +191
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,285
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,928
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.93×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 57.1%
- Peak was 1970 (91)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.6% average annual change
Spellings of Lainie
Lainie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 30.8% against Lainie's 0.17%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Lainie is used
Across 1910–2025, Lainie was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lainie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lainie around the world
Where Lainie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2002–2025#2,788in 2025
- Northern Ireland2025–2025#397in 2025
- South Australia1969–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lainie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lainie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lainie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.