Lanie
#2,227 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lanie has been given to 5,637 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,227 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 225 recorded.
Babies named Lanie, 2025
1 in 39,900
Lanie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lanie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 39,900
- 83 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 19,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,227
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 27,687 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lanie 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 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lanies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanie was born before 2004 — so the typical Lanie is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5,013
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (1,810).
Is Lanie 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
- −395
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −338
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −258
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.81×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.9%
- Peak was 2006 (225)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lanie
Lanie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 12.6% against Lanie's 0.13%.
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 Lanie is used
Across 2016–2025, Lanie was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 21,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Indiana1 in 7,692
- 2Missouri1 in 9,091
- 3Georgia1 in 11,111
- 4North Carolina1 in 11,111
- 5Illinois1 in 14,286
- 6Oklahoma1 in 14,286
- 7Alabama1 in 16,667
- 8Mississippi1 in 16,667
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.
Lanie around the world
Where Lanie 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 & Wales2001–2025#5,927in 2025
- France2016–2016#6,589in 2016
- Canada2003–2003#2,681in 2003
- South Australia1978–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lanie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Lanie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lanie
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lanie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lanie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.