Lain — #7339 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lain

The Social Security Administration has registered 469 babies named Lain between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lain currently holds the #7339 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Lain is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 2004.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lain performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 166 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lain shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lain in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lain in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 469 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.