Laney
Laney was given to 421 girls in 2025, #674 among girls’ names; 14,360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,900 Americans named Laney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Laney mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Laney is “a female given name.”
/ˈleɪni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Laney?
#674 among girls’ names, 2025
Laney fell from #643 in 2015 to #674 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.25 to 0.26 per 1,000.
640 babies in 2006, the peak
Laney peaked in 2006, when 640 girls were given it, #486 among girls’ names. The 421 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 421 | #674 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 411 | #689 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 447 | #658 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 419 | #705 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 458 | #652 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 444 | #650 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 415 | #698 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 388 | #730 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 439 | #669 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 370 | #771 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 445 | #643 | 0.25 |
| 2014 | 449 | #637 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 418 | #678 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 454 | #630 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 557 | #522 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 540 | #545 | 0.30 |
| 2009 | 561 | #537 | 0.31 |
| 2008 | 543 | #569 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 588 | #532 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 640 | #486 | 0.34 |
| 2005 | 635 | #482 | 0.34 |
| 2004 | 527 | #544 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 495 | #559 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 407 | #628 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 408 | #617 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 332 | #704 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,078 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,641 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,557 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,612 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,673 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,694 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,052 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,705 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,660 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,753 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,408 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,287 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,301 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,998 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,166 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,718 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,987 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,789 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,249 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,592 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,067 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,414 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,610 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,351 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,342 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,631 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,202 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,923 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,876 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,853 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,039 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,794 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,954 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,918 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,287 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,076 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1883 | 5 | #982 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,360 Americans recorded as Laney, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 421 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Laney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laney, and how old are they?
13,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 14,360 Americans ever recorded as Laney. The median Laney alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 11,318 people named Laney (11,031 women and girls, 287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 201 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 863 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,490 |
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 Laney born?
The states with the most babies named Laney are Texas, Georgia and California, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 34 | #872 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 26 | #440 | 1.3× |
| California | 22 | #1,169 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 20 | #816 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 19 | #549 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #625 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #607 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #519 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 15 | #528 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 14 | #503 | 1.2× |
Where Laney is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laney is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 girls’ 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 Laney 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 125,659 babies since 1880, Laney is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 421 of their 7,382 babies (5.7%), again the third 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 Laney
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 Laney and names like it
- Compare Laney and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaney peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laney since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Laney.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laney alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.