Lanny
Lanny was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 9,644 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,600 Americans named Lanny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 58 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lanny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lanny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lanny is “a diminutive of the male given name Laurence.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Roland.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lanny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,416, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
498 babies in 1949, the peak
Lanny peaked in 1949, when 498 boys were given it, #303 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,416 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,355 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,267 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,159 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,576 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,525 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,228 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,392 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,123 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,862 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,736 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,934 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,196 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,453 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,316 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,295 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,395 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,999 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,197 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,305 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,497 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,732 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,884 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,035 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,169 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,988 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,577 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,021 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 47 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,016 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,013 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 70 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 77 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 92 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 84 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 115 | #771 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 107 | #757 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 103 | #734 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 90 | #771 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 114 | #695 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 112 | #703 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 113 | #725 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 117 | #725 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 122 | #695 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 172 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 172 | #598 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 161 | #610 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 206 | #535 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 184 | #569 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 218 | #512 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 228 | #485 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 240 | #469 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 293 | #408 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 321 | #382 | 0.17 |
| 1951 | 409 | #335 | 0.22 |
| 1950 | 489 | #306 | 0.27 |
| 1949 | 498 | #303 | 0.28 |
| 1948 | 298 | #392 | 0.17 |
| 1947 | 335 | #376 | 0.18 |
| 1946 | 332 | #358 | 0.20 |
| 1945 | 241 | #384 | 0.18 |
| 1944 | 247 | #383 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 292 | #358 | 0.20 |
| 1942 | 414 | #299 | 0.30 |
| 1941 | 371 | #301 | 0.30 |
| 1940 | 302 | #329 | 0.26 |
| 1939 | 212 | #388 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 183 | #423 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 174 | #429 | 0.16 |
| 1936 | 133 | #492 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 123 | #520 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 93 | #620 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,385 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,506 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lanny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lanny has been given almost only to boys: 67 girls in 90 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lanny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lanny, and how old are they?
5,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 9,644 Americans ever recorded as Lanny. The median Lanny alive today is 71 years old; half are between 58 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 6,691 people named Lanny (427 women and girls, 6,264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,605 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 838 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 334 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 146 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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 Lanny born?
The states with the most babies named Lanny are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 795 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 425 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 413 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 392 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 376 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 323 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 321 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 320 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 272 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 267 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Lanny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lanny is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1919 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Lanny 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 85,279 babies since 1880, Lanny is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,065 babies recorded by SSA was a Lanny (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lanny
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 Lanny and names like it
- Compare Lanny and LaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLanny peaked in 1949.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lanny since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Lanny.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lanny alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.