Lanae
Lanae was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,414 among girls’ names; 2,951 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,790 Americans named Lanae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 17 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanae?
#4,414 among girls’ names, 2025
Lanae fell from #3,739 in 2015 to #4,414 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 19.9 per million.
76 babies in 2007, the peak
Lanae peaked in 2007, when 76 girls were given it, #2,472 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,414 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,092 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,812 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,798 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,646 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,402 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,828 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,537 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,037 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,628 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,739 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,692 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,543 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,957 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,528 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,796 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,275 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,140 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,472 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,798 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,844 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,464 | 23.4 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,907 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,362 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,615 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,724 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,763 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,908 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,067 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,436 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,904 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,389 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,467 | 28.2 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,993 | 37.4 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,305 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,137 | 32.1 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,316 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,567 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,462 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,317 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,377 | 24.4 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,594 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,116 | 28.1 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,235 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,633 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,507 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,964 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,495 | 22.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,549 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,692 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,297 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,959 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,176 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,036 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,697 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,895 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,082 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,458 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,402 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,167 | 17.7 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,090 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,507 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,331 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,135 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,897 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,044 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,922 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,092 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,453 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,673 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,925 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,955 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,020 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,986 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,435 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,152 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,790 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,742 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,354 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,332 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,529 | 6.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,374 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,088 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,548 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,642 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,554 | 5.0 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,913 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanae, and how old are they?
2,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,951 Americans ever recorded as Lanae. The median Lanae alive today is 31 years old; half are between 17 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 2,344 people named Lanae (2,333 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,646 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 262 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 748 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 842 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 486 |
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 Lanae born?
The states with the most babies named Lanae are California, Texas and Ohio, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 257 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Lanae 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 100,831 babies since 1880, Lanae is the eighth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 1,768 babies (1.8%), 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 Lanae
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 Lanae and names like it
- Compare Lanae and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLanae peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanae since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lanae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lanae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.