Lanis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Lanis

The Social Security Administration has registered 182 babies named Lanis between 1916 and 1980, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lanis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1980. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Lanis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 58 additional births since 1940.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lanis performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 55 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lanis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lanis 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 182 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.