Laneisha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Laneisha

The Social Security Administration has registered 616 babies named Laneisha between 1972 and 2014, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laneisha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laneisha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 250 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Laneisha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Laneisha in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laneisha 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 616 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.