Lainey
#30 for girls in 2025, 5,738 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 5,738 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 3 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,421since 1968
Lainey over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #30 | 5,738 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #38 | 5,156 | — | |
| 2023 | #54 | 3,941 | — | |
| 2022 | #174 | 1,698 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #250 | 1,229 | — | |
| 2020 | #366 | 844 | — | |
| 2019 | #381 | 822 | — | |
| 2018 | #460 | 684 | — | |
| 2017 | #510 | 615 | — | |
| 2016 | #541 | 577 | — | |
| 2015 | #576 | 531 | — | |
| 2014 | #585 | 514 | — | |
| 2013 | #584 | 490 | — | |
| 2012 | #568 | 516 | — | |
| 2011 | #533 | 544 | — | |
| 2010 | #618 | 476 | — | |
| 2009 | #698 | 416 | — | |
| 2008 | #697 | 433 | — | |
| 2007 | #669 | 440 | — | |
| 2006 | #723 | 388 | — | |
| 2005 | #678 | 410 | — | |
| 2004 | #795 | 320 | — | |
| 2003 | #925 | 254 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,135 | 183 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,181 | 173 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,217 | 163 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,647 | 101 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,391 | 55 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,398 | 54 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,028 | 67 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,929 | 73 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,195 | 60 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,163 | 61 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,153 | 60 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,065 | 16 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,687 | 21 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lainey! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lainey is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#40 · 1 in 192
- Wyoming#42 · 1 in 121
- South Dakota#42 · 1 in 173
- Kentucky#43 · 1 in 248
- North Dakota#51 · 1 in 181
Best ever in a state: #1 in Montana, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #40 | 28 | 1 in 192 |
| South Dakota | #42 | 15 | 1 in 173 |
| Wyoming | #42 | 7 | 1 in 121 |
| Kentucky | #43 | 68 | 1 in 248 |
| North Dakota | #51 | 14 | 1 in 181 |
| New Hampshire | #77 | 14 | 1 in 254 |
| Tennessee | #85 | 77 | 1 in 410 |
| Indiana | #92 | 65 | 1 in 433 |
| Iowa | #92 | 30 | 1 in 387 |
| Wisconsin | #95 | 49 | 1 in 419 |
| Kansas | #97 | 30 | 1 in 384 |
| Montana | #98 | 9 | 1 in 289 |
| Ohio | #98 | 100 | 1 in 476 |
| Minnesota | #100 | 52 | 1 in 421 |
| Alabama | #106 | 41 | 1 in 468 |
| Missouri | #106 | 52 | 1 in 466 |
| Idaho | #108 | 18 | 1 in 359 |
| Nebraska | #108 | 17 | 1 in 420 |
| Arkansas | #110 | 24 | 1 in 435 |
| Delaware | #125 | 7 | 1 in 340 |
| North Carolina | #139 | 71 | 1 in 641 |
| Mississippi | #143 | 19 | 1 in 511 |
| Utah | #146 | 28 | 1 in 576 |
| Pennsylvania | #156 | 71 | 1 in 676 |
| Michigan | #164 | 54 | 1 in 686 |
| Washington | #170 | 38 | 1 in 756 |
| Maryland | #185 | 29 | 1 in 764 |
| Oklahoma | #186 | 20 | 1 in 739 |
| Colorado | #195 | 28 | 1 in 779 |
| South Carolina | #195 | 23 | 1 in 772 |
| Oregon | #202 | 17 | 1 in 756 |
| Maine | #211 | 5 | 1 in 639 |
| Georgia | #213 | 51 | 1 in 898 |
| Louisiana | #219 | 22 | 1 in 816 |
| Virginia | #222 | 37 | 1 in 942 |
| Illinois | #234 | 44 | 1 in 1,061 |
| Arizona | #250 | 26 | 1 in 1,086 |
| Florida | #261 | 72 | 1 in 1,196 |
| Texas | #262 | 130 | 1 in 1,252 |
| Connecticut | #263 | 12 | 1 in 989 |
| Massachusetts | #318 | 18 | 1 in 1,362 |
| New Jersey | #340 | 24 | 1 in 1,531 |
| New York | #354 | 49 | 1 in 1,634 |
| Nevada | #367 | 7 | 1 in 1,347 |
| California | #531 | 69 | 1 in 2,518 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lainey
- 8 spots since 2024 (#38 → #30)
- 336 spots since 2020 (#366 → #30)
- 546 spots since 2015 (#576 → #30)
- Biggest jump: 210 spots in 2003 (#1,135 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2006 (#678 → #723)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2025 at #30 (5,738 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 2003–2025
- Highest: 1 in 280 girls born in 2025 were named Lainey (0.36%)
- 65.5% of all girls named Lainey (18,606) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,246 |
| 1970s | 10 | #8,423 (1973) | #9,087 |
| 1980s | 195 | #3,165 (1989) | #4,306 |
| 1990s | 655 | #1,647 (1999) | #2,135 |
| 2000s | 3,180 | #669 (2007) | #872 |
| 2010s | 5,769 | #381 (2019) | #536 |
| 2020s | 18,606 | #30 (2025) | #152 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lainey in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 966 of them was named Lainey, which outranked 99.0% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 349,202 of them was named Lainey, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,003 names at #12,330; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.