Lane — #261 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lane

The Social Security Administration has registered 46,173 babies named Lane between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lane currently holds the #261 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 1,406 babies received it in a single year. Lane is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,503 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lane performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 12,167 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lane shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5,187 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Lane in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lane 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 46,173 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.