Lanier
Lanier is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195219 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,200people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,058 boys have been named Lanier in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 19 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 1964, and the 1940s alone account for 12%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 142 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lanier | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | |
| 1920s | 113 | |
| 1930s | 90 | |
| 1940s | 130 | |
| 1950s | 114 | |
| 1960s | 105 | |
| 1970s | 117 | |
| 1980s | 103 | |
| 1990s | 85 | |
| 2000s | 53 | |
| 2010s | 70 | |
| 2020s | 43 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Lanier was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Lanier
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cesariopeak 1937
- Candelariopeak 1929
- Nielpeak 1958
- Venturapeak 1938
- Conradopeak 1974
- Lennardpeak 1949
- Leandrewpeak 1959
- Isidoropeak 1929
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.