Laynie
Laynie was given to 172 girls in 2025, #1,296 among girls’ names; 2,279 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,260 Americans named Laynie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 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 Laynie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Laynie?
#1,296 among girls’ names, 2025
Laynie rose from #2,366 in 2015 to #1,296 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.04 to 0.11 per 1,000.
172 babies in 2025, the peak
Laynie peaked in 2025, when 172 girls were given it, #1,296 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 135 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172 | #1,296 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,573 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,717 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,541 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,963 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,983 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,287 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,589 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,634 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,366 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,457 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,793 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,487 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,111 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,245 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,197 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,676 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,414 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,366 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 91 | #2,065 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,696 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,627 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,064 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,832 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,002 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,974 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,539 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,957 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,824 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,698 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,452 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,716 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,805 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Laynie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Laynie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Laynie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Laynie, and how old are they?
2,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,279 Americans ever recorded as Laynie. The median Laynie alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,431 people named Laynie (1,422 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,500 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 71 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 879 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,310 |
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 Laynie born?
The states with the most babies named Laynie are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,505 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 10 | #928 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,502 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 8 | #766 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,151 | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #585 | 2.1× |
| Utah | 7 | #572 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 7 | #621 | 1.0× |
| Iowa | 7 | #470 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,367 | 0.2× |
Where Laynie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Laynie is most over-represented in Texas: since 1984 it was given 1.3 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 Laynie 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 Laynie?
Laynie is a less common spelling of Lainey: SSA has recorded 2,279 Laynie and 28,431 Lainey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,130 babies since 1880, Laynie is the seventh most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 6,472 babies (2.7%), the third 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 Laynie
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 Laynie and names like it
- Compare Laynie and LaineyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLaynie peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Laynie since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Laynie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Laynie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.