Lanita
Lanita was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,478 among girls’ names; 3,721 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,080 Americans named Lanita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lanita?
#11,478 among girls’ names, 2025
Lanita fell from #9,854 in 2015 to #11,478 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.0 per million.
113 babies in 1958, the peak
Lanita peaked in 1958, when 113 girls were given it, #973 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,478 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,873 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,869 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,087 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,620 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,876 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,966 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,048 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,088 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,399 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,854 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,697 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,645 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,439 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,831 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,934 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,538 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,822 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,453 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,035 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,998 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,510 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,276 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,653 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,484 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,659 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,070 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,229 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,520 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,229 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,173 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,890 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,174 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,107 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,754 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,319 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,894 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,462 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,634 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,965 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,116 | 29.1 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,895 | 33.3 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,872 | 33.5 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,093 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,897 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,666 | 41.6 |
| 1979 | 79 | #1,500 | 49.2 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,541 | 47.0 |
| 1977 | 84 | #1,352 | 54.8 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,555 | 44.4 |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,434 | 50.1 |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,328 | 54.5 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,598 | 39.8 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,509 | 41.4 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,590 | 36.1 |
| 1970 | 84 | #1,288 | 48.1 |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,365 | 42.1 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,484 | 36.0 |
| 1967 | 83 | #1,168 | 50.3 |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,330 | 39.6 |
| 1965 | 86 | #1,152 | 48.7 |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,301 | 39.1 |
| 1963 | 105 | #1,049 | 54.5 |
| 1962 | 93 | #1,134 | 47.3 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,219 | 40.6 |
| 1960 | 86 | #1,174 | 42.5 |
| 1959 | 78 | #1,210 | 38.5 |
| 1958 | 113 | #973 | 56.2 |
| 1957 | 70 | #1,257 | 34.2 |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,344 | 29.9 |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,171 | 37.3 |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,302 | 29.9 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,516 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,493 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,539 | 21.1 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,418 | 24.5 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,527 | 21.6 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,558 | 21.2 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,368 | 25.9 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,449 | 23.5 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,722 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,155 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,351 | 26.5 |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,315 | 28.1 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,517 | 22.3 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,769 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,569 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,577 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,705 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,252 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,250 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,134 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,007 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,571 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,685 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,199 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,507 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,692 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,960 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,207 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,697 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,229 | 5.6 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,841 | 6.7 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,077 | 6.0 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,619 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,029 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,439 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lanita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanita, and how old are they?
3,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 3,721 Americans ever recorded as Lanita. The median Lanita alive today is 55 years old; half are between 43 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 2,878 people named Lanita (2,871 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 967 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 218 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 104 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Lanita born?
The states with the most babies named Lanita are Texas, California and Illinois, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 351 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 211 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 79 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 65 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lanita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lanita is most over-represented in Texas: since 1913 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lanita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,968 babies since 1880, Lanita is the most given (75% of them).
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 Lanita
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 Lanita and names like it
- Compare Lanita and LanettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLanita peaked in 1958.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanita since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Lanita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lanita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.