Laney Girl
How popular is Laney?
#673 girl name in 2025
421 baby girls were named Laney in the US in 2025, making it the 673rd most popular girl name.
Laney popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #673 for girls (▲ 16 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 421 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-5% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #641 in 2015, #650 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (640 girls) |
| Highest rank | #481 in 2005 |
| First recorded | 1883 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Laney 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 Laney is most popular
Babies named Laney per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Laney by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #920 |
| 1890s | 10 | #1,582 |
| 1900s | 16 | #1,862 |
| 1910s | 52 | #2,140 |
| 1920s | 61 | #2,938 |
| 1930s | 20 | #3,374 |
| 1940s | 56 | #2,761 |
| 1950s | 64 | #3,105 |
| 1960s | 87 | #3,317 |
| 1970s | 151 | #2,942 |
| 1980s | 297 | #1,985 |
| 1990s | 994 | #1,075 |
| 2000s | 5,136 | #481 |
| 2010s | 4,475 | #522 |
| 2020s | 2,600 | #650 |
Girl names about as popular as Laney
Questions
- Is Laney a boy or girl name?
- Laney is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Laney were girls.
- How popular is the name Laney?
- 421 baby girls were named Laney in the US in 2025, making it the 673rd most popular girl name.
- When was Laney most popular?
- Laney peaked in 2006, when 640 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #481 in 2005.
- How many people are named Laney?
- 14,360 babies have been named Laney in the US since 1880. We estimate about 13,908 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Laney most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Laney was most common in Kentucky, at 0.9 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.