Lainie
Lainie was given to 52 girls in 2025, #3,122 among girls’ names; 1,967 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Lainie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lainie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lainie?
#3,122 among girls’ names, 2025
Lainie rose from #5,050 in 2015 to #3,122 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 32.4 per million.
91 babies in 1970, the peak
Lainie peaked in 1970, when 91 girls were given it, #1,232 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,122 | 32.4 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,313 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,806 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,852 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,681 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,407 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,606 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,511 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,595 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,791 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,050 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,507 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,295 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,340 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,527 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,722 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,541 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,678 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,099 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,596 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,803 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,941 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,291 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,870 | 28.9 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,170 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,030 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,066 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,225 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,516 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,251 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,575 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,754 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,591 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,308 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,127 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,317 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,402 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,871 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,072 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,855 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,988 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,765 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,010 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,439 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,384 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,164 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,844 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,986 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,784 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,596 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,436 | 22.6 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,836 | 32.7 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,782 | 33.6 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,374 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,837 | 28.8 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,232 | 52.1 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,337 | 43.3 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,357 | 41.5 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,898 | 23.6 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,709 | 12.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lainie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lainie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lainie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lainie, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,967 Americans ever recorded as Lainie. The median Lainie alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,720 people named Lainie (1,715 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 554 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 277 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 651 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 423 |
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).
How common is the spelling Lainie?
Lainie is a less common spelling of Lainey: SSA has recorded 1,967 Lainie and 28,431 Lainey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,503 babies since 1880, Lainie is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 6,467 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Lainie
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 Lainie and names like it
- Compare Lainie and LaineyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLainie peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lainie since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Lainie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lainie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.