Lanee
Lanee was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 875 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,871, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 2007, the peak
Lanee peaked in 2007, when 46 girls were given it, #3,567 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,871 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,774 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,619 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,925 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,219 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,388 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,777 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,446 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,882 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,895 | 10.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #8,914 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,997 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,887 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,901 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,237 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,567 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,213 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,073 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,863 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,027 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,546 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,288 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,102 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,545 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,310 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,999 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,218 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,304 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,660 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,332 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,779 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,577 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,775 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,955 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,754 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,387 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,085 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,356 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,703 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,640 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,148 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,780 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,709 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,585 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,765 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,050 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,597 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,565 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,994 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,797 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,202 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,773 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,146 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,288 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,112 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,800 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,654 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,644 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,748 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,611 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,076 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,039 | 3.0 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,023 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanee, and how old are they?
An estimated 847 Americans named Lanee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 813 people named Lanee (795 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 834 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Lanee?
Lanee is a less common spelling of Laney: SSA has recorded 875 Lanee and 14,360 Laney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 123,372 babies since 1880, Lanee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 7,358 babies recorded by SSA was a Lanee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lanee
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 Lanee and names like it
- Compare Lanee and LaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLanee peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanee since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lanee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lanee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.