Laniya
Laniya was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,324 among girls’ names; 3,162 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Laniya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laniya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laniya?
#5,324 among girls’ names, 2025
Laniya fell from #1,787 in 2015 to #5,324 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 14.9 per million.
240 babies in 2007, the peak
Laniya peaked in 2007, when 240 girls were given it, #1,087 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,324 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,252 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,415 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,739 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,053 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,995 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,946 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,856 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,296 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,074 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,787 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,872 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,699 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 154 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,381 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 205 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 216 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 240 | #1,087 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,201 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,285 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 209 | #1,094 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,514 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,715 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,312 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 65 | #2,386 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,657 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,458 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,759 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,574 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,436 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,700 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,126 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laniya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laniya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laniya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laniya, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,162 Americans ever recorded as Laniya. The median Laniya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,259 people named Laniya (2,252 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,932 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 41 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 854 |
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 Laniya born?
The states with the most babies named Laniya are Illinois, Florida and Ohio, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 197 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 186 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 171 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 167 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 162 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 141 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 131 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 126 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 76 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Laniya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laniya is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1992 it was given 1.7 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 Laniya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 97,554 babies since 1880, Laniya is the seventh most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 1,598 babies (1.5%), again the seventh 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 Laniya
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 Laniya and names like it
- Compare Laniya and LanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLaniya peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laniya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Laniya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Laniya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.