girls:
67 births since 1940
#5649 (1st percentile)
boys:
9.6k births since 1919
#1201 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.6k births since 1919
#2738 (65th percentile)
The name Lanny is the #2,738 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,639 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 64.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,201 (73.8% percentile) for all time with 9,572 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,649 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 67 births since 1940.
Lanny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1940 for girls). Birth data for Lanny is available in 89 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (88 years for boys and 12 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 Lanny has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lanny reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 51.1% percentile (ranked #287) with 276 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 296 births per million (ranked 47.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lanny ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lanny reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #688) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lanny".
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