girls:
2k births since 1984
#3845 (33rd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1984
#5799 (25th percentile)
The name Laynie is the #5,799 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,971 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 25.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,845 (32.7% percentile) for all time with 1,971 births since 1984.
Laynie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (first recorded for girls in 1984). Birth data for Laynie is available in 35 out of the 40 years between 1984 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Laynie reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #805) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 76 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Laynie ranks #832 for girls (12.2% percentile) with 69 births per million, which is 90.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Laynie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Laynie is pronounced as LAY-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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