girls:
58 births since 1940
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
182 births since 1916
#4404 (4th percentile)
overall:
240 births since 1916
#7499 (3rd percentile)
The name Lanis is the #7,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 240 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,404 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 182 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1940.
Lanis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1940 for girls). Birth data for Lanis is available in 30 out of the 65 years between 1916 and 1980 (27 years for boys and 9 years for girls). 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 Lanis has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.8% of all recorded births being male. In 1980, 100.0% of babies named Lanis were boys.
For boys, Lanis reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #578) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
For girls, Lanis reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #681) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1953.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lanis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lanis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Lanis is pronounced as LAY-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LA-nihs, at 34.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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