Lanier — #7780 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lanier

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,058 babies named Lanier between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lanier currently holds the #7780 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Lanier is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lanier performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lanier shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Lanier in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lanier 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 1,058 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.