Lanita
#11,478 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lanita has been given to 3,721 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #11,478 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 113 recorded.
Babies named Lanita, 2025
1 in 414,000
Lanita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lanita?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,478
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lanita 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lanitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanita was born before 1968 — so the typical Lanita is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 21.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,153
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (806).
Is Lanita 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
- +1,395
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,398
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,624
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.1%
- Peak was 1958 (113)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lanita
Lanita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 22.3% against Lanita's 0.39%.
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 Lanita is used
Across 1910–2025, Lanita was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 90,053 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 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. Lanita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lanita around the world
Where Lanita 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.
- South Australia1966–1967#650in 1967
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lanita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lanita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Lanita
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lanita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Lanita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.