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Lane

Pronounced /leɪn/

Rank in 2024
#261
Born in 2024
1,331
Peak year
2019 · #258
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:87 in 2024 (#2,176)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,331 boys were named Lane, about 1 in every 1,289.
  • It peaked in 2019 with 1,406 babies, ranked #258.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1881.
  • 46,173 boys have been named Lane since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Lane per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.5
    Gen Z
  7. 0.7
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 502 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 1,102 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,786 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,844 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,890 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 16,702 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 15,320 babies, 0.71 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/leɪn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Lane, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoySteady

    Layne

    Rank
    #696
    Born '24
    387
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20122024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lino

    Rank
    #2,156
    Born '24
    68
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20032024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Laine

    Rank
    #2,423
    Born '24
    57
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20192024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lanny

    Rank
    #13,178
    Born '24
    5
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19492024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Lannie

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19492024