Lanise — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lanise

The Social Security Administration has registered 603 babies named Lanise between 1958 and 2020, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lanise currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 23 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lanise performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lanise shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lanise in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lanise 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 603 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.