Laynee
Laynee was given to 121 girls in 2025, #1,698 among girls’ names; 1,963 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Laynee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Laynee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laynee?
#1,698 among girls’ names, 2025
Laynee rose from #2,702 in 2015 to #1,698 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 37.0 to 75.3 per million.
141 babies in 2024, the peak
Laynee peaked in 2024, when 141 girls were given it, #1,526 among girls’ names. The 121 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121 | #1,698 | 75.3 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,526 | 87.0 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,756 | 72.9 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,239 | 51.2 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,454 | 44.5 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,813 | 67.4 |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,344 | 45.9 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,826 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,997 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,889 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,702 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,029 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,677 | 37.6 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,586 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,095 | 52.3 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,467 | 42.8 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,438 | 43.0 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,497 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,474 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,958 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,389 | 40.0 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,943 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,977 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,305 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,746 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,073 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,071 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,846 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,084 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,104 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,697 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,243 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,147 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,391 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,569 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laynee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laynee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laynee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laynee, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,963 Americans ever recorded as Laynee. The median Laynee alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,214 people named Laynee (1,214 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,335 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 37 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 833 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Laynee born?
The states with the most babies named Laynee are Ohio, Texas and Michigan, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 9 | #1,002 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,536 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,023 | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,062 | 0.5× |
| California | 5 | #3,340 | 0.0× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,587 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,519 | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #858 | 0.2× |
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 Laynee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Laynee?
Laynee is a less common spelling of Lainey: SSA has recorded 1,963 Laynee and 28,431 Lainey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,930 babies since 1880, Laynee is the eighth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 121 of their 6,831 babies (1.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Laynee
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 Laynee and names like it
- Compare Laynee and LaineyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLaynee peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laynee since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Laynee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laynee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.