Laney — #689 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Laney

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,599 babies named Laney between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Laney currently holds the #689 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 640 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Laney performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Laney shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,372 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Laney in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Laney 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 13,599 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.