Lana — #374 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lana

The Social Security Administration has registered 56,666 babies named Lana between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lana currently holds the #374 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 1,465 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lana performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 10,199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,951 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lana in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lana 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 56,666 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.