Lanah
#6,453 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lanah has been given to 476 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #6,453 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Lanah, 2025
1 in 184,000
Lanah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lanah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 89,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,453
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lanah 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lanahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanah was born before 2014 — so the typical Lanah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 476
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (245).
Is Lanah 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
- +359
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +958
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,654
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.62×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.3%
- Peak was 2014 (32)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lanah
Lanah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 36.2% against Lanah's 0.02%.
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 Lanah is used
Across 1910–2025, Lanah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 628,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Lanah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lanah around the world
Where Lanah 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 & Wales2005–2024#3,696in 2024
- Scotland2011–2014#802in 2014
- Ireland2012–2013#894in 2013
- France2003–2025#3,666in 2025
- Canada2019–2019#3,370in 2019
- South Australia2010–2010#521in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lanah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lanah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lanah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.