girls:
5.4k births since 1880
#2277 (60th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1915
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1880
#3700 (52nd percentile)
The name Lanie is the #3,700 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,443 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,277 (60.2% percentile) for all time with 5,408 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1915.
Lanie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys). Birth data for Lanie is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 7 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 Lanie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lanie reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #746) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 108 births per million (ranked 22.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lanie ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 46.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lanie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lanie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lanie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lainey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lainey..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lanie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.1% confident that Lanie is pronounced as LAY-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is luh-NEE, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L EY1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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