Lanz
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lanz has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Lanz, 2007
1 in 666,000
Lanz 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lanz?
Lanz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 666,000
- 6 of 3,997,748 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 346,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,839 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lanz sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lanz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lanzs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lanz was born before 2002 — so the typical Lanz is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 84.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 33
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 84.8% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Lanz 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (6)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 5.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lanz
Lanz is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 27.4% against Lanz's <0.01%.
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.
Lanz around the world
Where Lanz 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 & Wales2015–2015#3,908in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Lanz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lanz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lanz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.