Laini
Laini was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,805 among girls’ names; 371 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laini?
#9,805 among girls’ names, 2025
Laini rose from #11,438 in 2015 to #9,805 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.2 per million.
18 babies in 2008, the peak
Laini peaked in 2008, when 18 girls were given it, #7,243 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,805 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,864 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,384 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,630 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,458 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,361 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,176 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,844 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,372 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,438 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,081 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,871 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,892 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,794 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,689 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,243 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,885 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,640 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,621 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,503 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,756 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,698 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,984 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,555 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,733 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,340 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,168 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,480 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,212 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,330 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,169 | 3.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,251 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,717 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,501 | 4.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,059 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,554 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,458 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,075 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,901 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,420 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,145 | 8.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,928 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,406 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laini, and how old are they?
An estimated 362 Americans named Laini and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 368 people named Laini (365 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Laini rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Laini?
Laini is a less common spelling of Lainey: SSA has recorded 371 Laini and 28,431 Lainey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 112,322 babies since 1880, Laini is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 7,068 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Laini
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 Laini and names like it
- Compare Laini and LaineyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaini peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laini since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Laini.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laini alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.