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Lana

Girls’ name Recorded 1885-2025

Lana was given to 768 girls in 2025, #406 among girls’ names; 57,449 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 48,900 Americans named Lana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 16 and 68.

Babies named Lana each year, first recorded in 1885
Lana, 1880-2025; highest in 1948.5001k1.5k188019001920194019601980200020251948 peak: 1,470
Lana, 1880-2025; highest in 1948.5001k1.5k188019001920194019601980200020251948 peak: 1,470
Lana, 1880-2025; highest in 1948.5001k1.5k18801905193019551980200520251948 peak: 1,470
Lana, 1880-2025; highest in 1948.5001k1.5k18801930198020251948 peak: 1,470

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Lana or LaneyNames of the 1940sNames in California

Births of Lana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Lana mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Lana is “a female given name from Russian.”

Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на (Lána), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).

/ˈlɑːnə/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Lana (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Lana?

#406 among girls’ names, 2025

Lana fell from #356 in 2015 to #406 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.52 to 0.48 per 1,000.

1,470 babies in 1948, the peak

Lana peaked in 1948, when 1,470 babies were given it (1,465 girls, #188 among girls’ names). The 768 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.

Lana by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
2025768#4060.48
2024830#3740.51
2023737#4160.46
2022750#4210.46
2021828#3770.50
2020793#3930.49
2019814#3840.48
2018872#3600.51
2017847#3690.49
2016847#3910.48
Every recorded year (136)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 girls
2015922#3560.52
2014943#3520.53
2013732#4140.42
2012708#4410.40
2011608#4880.35
2010628#4800.35
2009707#4460.38
2008731#4340.39
2007813#4050.42
2006773#4120.41
2005705#4370.38
2004640#4650.35
2003573#5010.31
2002380#6680.21
2001235#9410.13
2000209#1,0110.12
1999206#9970.12
1998186#1,0560.11
1997179#1,0620.10
1996182#1,0270.10
1995206#9140.12
1994192#9670.11
1993217#8900.12
1992231#8570.13
1991233#8570.12
1990251#7980.13
1989304#6670.16
1988328#6110.18
1987324#6020.19
1986302#6210.18
1985337#5780.20
1984376#5160.22
1983344#5450.21
1982334#5550.20
1981379#5210.23
1980456#4660.27
1979417#4890.26
1978511#4050.33
1977474#4280.31
1976384#4790.26
1975445#4420.31
1974457#4280.31
1973460#4250.32
1972600#3650.39
1971707#3520.42
1970780#3360.45
1969858#3080.51
1968804#3110.49
1967919#2800.56
1966876#2860.52
1965781#3220.44
1964883#3110.47
1963817#3300.42
1962787#3350.40
1961819#3290.41
1960776#3390.38
1959724#3540.36
1958672#3550.33
1957650#3560.32
1956680#3360.34
1955770#3080.39
1954811#2980.42
19531,009#2560.54
19521,104#2370.60
19511,198#2210.67
19501,314#2050.77
19491,318#2060.77
19481,465#1880.86
19471,364#1950.77
19461,300#1890.83
1945946#2080.72
1944901#2190.68
1943999#2080.72
1942857#2240.63
1941625#2550.52
1940424#3060.37
193987#7320.08
193840#1,1520.04
193717#1,9590.02
193613#2,3300.01
193515#2,1530.01
193419#1,8070.02
193314#2,2200.01
193213#2,4280.01
193111#2,6660.01
193022#1,7250.02
192919#1,9190.02
192817#2,1420.01
192726#1,6460.02
192622#1,8500.02
192536#1,3300.03
192426#1,6990.02
192323#1,8020.02
192226#1,6620.02
192121#1,9580.02
192014#2,5200.01
191918#2,0270.02
191822#1,7820.02
191722#1,6820.02
191621#1,7180.02
191514#2,1890.01
19149#2,5310.01
19137#2,6740.01
191210#1,9060.02
19119#1,7180.02
191010#1,5710.03
19096#2,0900.02
19085#2,2790.01
19076#1,9440.02
19068#1,4870.03
190514#1,0390.05
19046#1,7690.02
19039#1,2630.03
19028#1,3820.03
19019#1,1820.04
190010#1,2700.03
18977#1,3230.03
189611#1,0190.05
18957#1,3650.03
18948#1,1900.04
189314#8130.07
189211#9390.05
18915#1,4260.03
18889#9240.05
18876#1,0920.04
18856#9900.05

Download Lana’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Lana a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Lana has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 136 years of records.

Girls and boys named Lana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Lana, and how old are they?

48,900 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 85% of the 57,449 Americans ever recorded as Lana. The median Lana alive today is 48 years old; half are between 16 and 68.

The 2020 Census counted 48,612 people named Lana (48,529 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 46,850 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-1092
90-9921
80-893,290
70-797,970
60-696,670
50-595,910
40-49 (median)3,770
30-392,410
20-294,040
10-197,580
0-97,200

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-19452,510
Baby Boomers1946-196414,000
Generation X1965-19809,160
Millennials1981-19964,410
Generation Z1997-20128,200
Generation Alpha2013-202510,600

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 Lana born?

The states with the most babies named Lana are California, Texas and Illinois, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
StateSince 1910Rank, girlsvs. national
California6,086#2471.1×
Texas5,173#4981.2×
Illinois2,964#2921.1×
New York2,558#4340.6×
Ohio2,489#3810.9×
Indiana2,157#5631.5×
Pennsylvania2,079#3680.7×
Michigan2,053#3460.9×
Florida2,032#3461.0×
Missouri1,704#5391.3×

Where Lana is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Lana is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Indiana1.47×
Kentucky1.42×
South Dakota1.41×
Oklahoma1.37×
Kansas1.35×
Missouri1.28×
North Dakota1.28×
Texas1.17×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Lana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names spelled alike

Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 101,042 babies since 1880, Lana is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 768 of their 1,760 babies (44%), again the most given.

Lana and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Lana57,4497681948
Laney14,3604212006
Lani7,5561311979
Laine6,1131802019
Lanie5,637832006
Laina3,569742014
Layna3,196792014
Laniya3,162242007

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.

More about Lana and names like it

  1. Compare Lana and LaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1940sLana peaked in 1948.
  3. California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lana since 1910.
  4. Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Lana: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Lana.
  6. The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lana alive today were born 1946-1964.
  7. Names starting with LMost given first.

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