girls:
55.8k births since 1885
#537 (91st percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1943
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
55.8k births since 1885
#1004 (87th percentile)
The name Lana is the #1,004 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,844 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #537 (90.6% percentile) for all time with 55,829 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1943.
Lana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1943 for boys). Birth data for Lana is available in 134 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (134 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lana reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 73.0% percentile (ranked #186) with 840 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 840 births per million (ranked 73.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lana ranks #385 for girls (59.4% percentile) with 420 births per million, which is 49.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lana reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #569) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lana".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.7% confident that Lana is pronounced as LAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LA-nuh, at 34.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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