Lani
Lani is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 104 births. Its best rank was 877th, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1040.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1979143 births
- Best rank
- #877in 1947
- Since 1917
- 7,424people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,241 girls have been named Lani in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 143 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 1982, and the 2000s alone account for 16%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 183 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lani | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1930s | 31 | |
| 1940s | 596 | |
| 1950s | 894 | |
| 1960s | 887 | |
| 1970s | 911 | |
| 1980s | 838 | |
| 1990s | 691 | |
| 2000s | 1,144 | |
| 2010s | 762 | |
| 2020s | 472 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Lani was the 999th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Lani
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lannapeak 2014
- Lynneapeak 2011
- Ingridpeak 1967
- Rosalindapeak 2000
- Bronwynpeak 1964
- Raylenepeak 1961
- Saripeak 2007
- Gracielapeak 1998
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.