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Lanai

#6,997 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lanai has been given to 556 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #6,997 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Lanai, 2025

1 in 207,000

Lanai over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lanai: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lanai means

Lanai is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lanai is used in Lun Bawang.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 556 girls were recorded with the name Lanai between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,297 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,983 in 2020 to #6,997 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,455 in 2015 to #6,997 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lanai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,997
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lanai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lanais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanai was born before 2008 — so the typical Lanai is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
556
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Lanai 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
+1,724
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,014
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+458
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2008 (26)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,297
2011

Spellings of Lanai

Lanai is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 15.8% against Lanai's 0.05%.

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 Lanai is used

Across 1910–2025, Lanai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 444,799 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Lanai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lanai around the world

Where Lanai 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 & Wales
    2011–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • France
    2009–2009
    #5,805
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lanai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,997
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,014
Best rank ever
#5,297
2011
Peak year
2008
26 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
556
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Lanai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lanai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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