Lanaya
Lanaya was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,476 among girls’ names; 1,435 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Lanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanaya?
#11,476 among girls’ names, 2025
Lanaya fell from #4,454 in 2015 to #11,476 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 5.0 per million.
78 babies in 2004, the peak
Lanaya peaked in 2004, when 78 girls were given it, #2,251 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,476 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,374 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,191 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,245 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,902 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,823 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,900 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,698 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,187 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,823 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,454 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,966 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,240 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,618 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,529 | 25.6 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,344 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,024 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,193 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,016 | 30.7 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,689 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,103 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,251 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,652 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,917 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,171 | 24.4 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,832 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,603 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,257 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,403 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,572 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,452 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,503 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,105 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,285 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,274 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,960 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,211 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,466 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,549 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,874 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,273 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,379 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,021 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,840 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,778 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,628 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,952 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,172 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,787 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,715 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,564 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,959 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,664 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,132 | 2.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,303 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanaya, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,435 Americans ever recorded as Lanaya. The median Lanaya alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,103 people named Lanaya (1,103 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 191 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 771 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 372 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,140 babies since 1880, Lanaya is the seventh most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,360 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Lanaya
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 Lanaya and names like it
- Compare Lanaya and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLanaya peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Lanaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lanaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.