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Lanetta

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Lanetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196741 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1925
1,064people given the name
Babies named Lanetta, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,064 girls have been named Lanetta in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 41 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1970s alone account for 29%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Lanetta
1920s22
1930s17
1940s100
1950s176
1960s241
1970s305
1980s133
1990s59
2000s11

In 1967, its biggest year

Lanetta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.

Names that rose and fell with Lanetta

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.