Laney
Laney is ranked 689th among girls in 2024 (411 births). Its best rank was 482nd, in 2005.
- Rank in 2024
- #689down 29 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4110.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 2006640 births
- Best rank
- #482in 2005
- Since 1883
- 13,935people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,599 girls have been named Laney in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 640 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 38%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 336 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Laney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 16 | |
| 1910s | 52 | |
| 1920s | 61 | |
| 1930s | 20 | |
| 1940s | 56 | |
| 1950s | 64 | |
| 1960s | 87 | |
| 1970s | 151 | |
| 1980s | 297 | |
| 1990s | 994 | |
| 2000s | 5,136 | |
| 2010s | 4,475 | |
| 2020s | 2,175 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Laney was the 486th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Laney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaiyapeak 2002
- Samyrapeak 2007
- Fernandapeak 2009
- Giavonnapeak 2006
- Isabelapeak 2004
- Taliyapeak 2004
- Itzelpeak 2005
- Kaliyapeak 2009
Other spellings in the data
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.