Lainie Girl
How popular is Lainie?
#3,100 girl name in 2025
52 baby girls were named Lainie in the US in 2025, making it the 3100th most popular girl name.
Lainie popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,100 for girls (▲ 177 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 52 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+93% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,979 in 2015, #5,310 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1970 (91 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,224 in 1970 |
| First recorded | 1966 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lainie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lainey family of names ranked #27 for girls in 2025 (#37 the year before), with 6,919 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lainey | 5,738 | 83% |
| Laney | 421 | 6% |
| Laynie | 172 | 2% |
| Lanie | 83 | 1% |
| Lani | 131 | 2% |
| Laynee | 121 | 2% |
| Lainee | 129 | 2% |
| Lainie | 52 | 1% |
| Layni | 25 | 0% |
| Layney | 10 | 0% |
| Lany | 19 | 0% |
| Laini | 10 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lainie is most popular
Babies named Lainie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Lainie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 201 | #1,325 |
| 1970s | 371 | #1,224 |
| 1980s | 134 | #3,134 |
| 1990s | 228 | #3,261 |
| 2000s | 486 | #2,279 |
| 2010s | 327 | #3,495 |
| 2020s | 220 | #3,100 |
Girl names about as popular as Lainie
Questions
- Is Lainie a boy or girl name?
- Lainie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lainie were girls.
- How popular is the name Lainie?
- 52 baby girls were named Lainie in the US in 2025, making it the 3100th most popular girl name.
- When was Lainie most popular?
- Lainie peaked in 1970, when 91 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,224 in 1970.
- How many people are named Lainie?
- 1,967 babies have been named Lainie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,915 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 25.
- Where is Lainie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lainie was most common in Michigan, at 0.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.