Lane
Lane was given to 1,383 boys in 2025, #250 among boys’ names; 52,177 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 48,300 Americans named Lane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lane mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lane is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin.
/leɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lane?
#250 among boys’ names, 2025
Lane rose from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.63 to 0.81 per 1,000.
1,505 babies in 2019, the peak
Lane peaked in 2019, when 1,505 babies were given it (1,407 boys, #258 among boys’ names). The 1,495 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,383 | #250 | 0.81 |
| 2024 | 1,332 | #261 | 0.77 |
| 2023 | 1,374 | #255 | 0.80 |
| 2022 | 1,339 | #261 | 0.77 |
| 2021 | 1,322 | #261 | 0.76 |
| 2020 | 1,372 | #256 | 0.79 |
| 2019 | 1,407 | #258 | 0.78 |
| 2018 | 1,212 | #291 | 0.67 |
| 2017 | 1,178 | #299 | 0.64 |
| 2016 | 1,232 | #294 | 0.65 |
Every recorded year (124)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,209 | #297 | 0.63 |
| 2014 | 1,200 | #296 | 0.62 |
| 2013 | 1,152 | #304 | 0.61 |
| 2012 | 1,223 | #290 | 0.64 |
| 2011 | 1,294 | #270 | 0.68 |
| 2010 | 1,062 | #303 | 0.55 |
| 2009 | 1,053 | #306 | 0.53 |
| 2008 | 1,053 | #317 | 0.52 |
| 2007 | 1,016 | #316 | 0.49 |
| 2006 | 986 | #327 | 0.48 |
| 2005 | 1,039 | #317 | 0.52 |
| 2004 | 1,068 | #299 | 0.54 |
| 2003 | 1,129 | #274 | 0.57 |
| 2002 | 981 | #299 | 0.51 |
| 2001 | 894 | #310 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 1,015 | #296 | 0.52 |
| 1999 | 968 | #297 | 0.50 |
| 1998 | 954 | #296 | 0.50 |
| 1997 | 967 | #289 | 0.51 |
| 1996 | 1,070 | #261 | 0.56 |
| 1995 | 1,168 | #246 | 0.61 |
| 1994 | 689 | #354 | 0.36 |
| 1993 | 299 | #593 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 296 | #596 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 289 | #597 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 328 | #557 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 239 | #646 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 248 | #592 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 210 | #632 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 219 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 179 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 169 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 137 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 173 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 176 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 146 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 148 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 130 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 134 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 153 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 147 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 155 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 134 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 151 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 194 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 232 | #531 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 244 | #495 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 215 | #514 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 218 | #510 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 216 | #515 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 225 | #507 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 278 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 211 | #548 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 271 | #482 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 261 | #488 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 277 | #476 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 342 | #431 | 0.16 |
| 1958 | 198 | #548 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 183 | #571 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 194 | #540 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 184 | #545 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 183 | #536 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 181 | #528 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 187 | #510 | 0.10 |
| 1951 | 181 | #502 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 160 | #538 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 146 | #557 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 113 | #637 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 117 | #637 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 119 | #590 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 80 | #674 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 83 | #683 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 69 | #792 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 81 | #714 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 70 | #742 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 67 | #752 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 73 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 78 | #686 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 59 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 56 | #821 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 69 | #740 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 45 | #949 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 47 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 55 | #865 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 30 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 53 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 49 | #969 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,154 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,547 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,371 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,588 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,170 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,219 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 6 | #993 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 6 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 5 | #949 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 52,177 Americans recorded as Lane, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 112 girls and 1,383 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lane, and how old are they?
48,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 52,177 Americans ever recorded as Lane. The median Lane alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 39,308 people named Lane (4,292 women and girls, 35,016 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 311 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,810 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,800 |
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 Lane born?
The states with the most babies named Lane are Texas, Ohio and North Carolina, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 158 | #264 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 74 | #190 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 69 | #211 | 0.8× |
| California | 66 | #528 | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 65 | #107 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 61 | #363 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #231 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 56 | #175 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 49 | #240 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 49 | #206 | 0.6× |
Where Lane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lane is most over-represented in Montana: since 1910 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Lane 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 85,279 babies since 1880, Lane is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,495 of their 2,065 babies (72%), again the 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 Lane
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 Lane and names like it
- Compare Lane and LayneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLane peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lane since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lane: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Lane.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lane alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.