Lania
Lania was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,808 among girls’ names; 962 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lania?
#9,808 among girls’ names, 2025
Lania fell from #6,607 in 2015 to #9,808 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.2 per million.
60 babies in 2005, the peak
Lania peaked in 2005, when 60 girls were given it, #2,769 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,808 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,813 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,478 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,086 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,983 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,780 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,395 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,984 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,098 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,664 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,607 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,328 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,749 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,044 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,765 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,337 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,632 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,897 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,024 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,289 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,769 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,826 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,390 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,363 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,389 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,595 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,803 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,309 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,596 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,188 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,120 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,248 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,220 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,125 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,535 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,608 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,409 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,114 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,569 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,063 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,654 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,456 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,404 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,591 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,279 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,510 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,131 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,975 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,831 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,283 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,302 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,573 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lania, and how old are they?
An estimated 948 Americans named Lania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 808 people named Lania (803 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 96,433 babies since 1880, Lania is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 1,643 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Lania
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 Lania and names like it
- Compare Lania and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLania peaked in 2005.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lania since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Lania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.