Lainee
Lainee was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,618 among girls’ names; 1,559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Lainee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lainee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lainee?
#1,618 among girls’ names, 2025
Lainee rose from #4,665 in 2015 to #1,618 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 16.8 to 80.3 per million.
129 babies in 2025, the peak
Lainee peaked in 2025, when 129 girls were given it, #1,618 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 115 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,618 | 80.3 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,761 | 71.0 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,744 | 73.5 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,507 | 43.9 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,695 | 39.0 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,079 | 32.2 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,306 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,137 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,667 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,895 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,665 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,623 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,293 | 27.9 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,559 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,385 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,956 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 56 | #3,072 | 30.5 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,977 | 31.2 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,079 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,484 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,949 | 29.8 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,198 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,500 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,129 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,987 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,773 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,334 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,815 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,723 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,716 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,076 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,683 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,430 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,814 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,824 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,257 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,058 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,313 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lainee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lainee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lainee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lainee, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,559 Americans ever recorded as Lainee. The median Lainee alive today is 12 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 939 people named Lainee (938 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 43 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 641 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 848 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lainee born?
The states with the most babies named Lainee are Texas, Utah and Kentucky, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lainee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lainee?
Lainee is a less common spelling of Lainey: SSA has recorded 1,559 Lainee and 28,431 Lainey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,899 babies since 1880, Lainee is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 6,834 babies (1.9%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lainee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lainee and names like it
- Compare Lainee and LaineyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLainee peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lainee since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lainee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lainee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.