Lanette
Lanette is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 749th, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1964186 births
- Best rank
- #749in 1967
- Since 1917
- 5,005people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,005 girls have been named Lanette in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 186 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 186 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 15 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lanette | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | |
| 1920s | 46 | |
| 1930s | 77 | |
| 1940s | 369 | |
| 1950s | 910 | |
| 1960s | 1,600 | |
| 1970s | 1,024 | |
| 1980s | 565 | |
| 1990s | 226 | |
| 2000s | 109 | |
| 2010s | 65 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Lanette was the 763rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Lanette
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karinpeak 1970
- Dennapeak 1969
- Lenettepeak 1960
- Reneepeak 1962
- Carlapeak 1962
- Carlettepeak 1966
- Cheriepeak 1970
- Lynnettepeak 1964
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.