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 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#148 · 1 in 433
- Iowa#224 · 1 in 882
- Nebraska#233 · 1 in 821
- West Virginia#323 · 1 in 1,358
- Louisiana#356 · 1 in 1,475
Best ever in a state: #1 in Montana, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #148 | 7 | 1 in 433 |
| Iowa | #224 | 15 | 1 in 882 |
| Nebraska | #233 | 10 | 1 in 821 |
| West Virginia | #323 | 5 | 1 in 1,358 |
| Louisiana | #356 | 14 | 1 in 1,475 |
| Kentucky | #403 | 10 | 1 in 1,928 |
| Missouri | #416 | 14 | 1 in 2,001 |
| Indiana | #417 | 16 | 1 in 1,981 |
| Mississippi | #425 | 7 | 1 in 1,681 |
| Arkansas | #427 | 7 | 1 in 1,686 |
| Kansas | #454 | 7 | 1 in 1,966 |
| Nevada | #468 | 6 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Minnesota | #476 | 11 | 1 in 2,254 |
| Alabama | #508 | 9 | 1 in 2,224 |
| Pennsylvania | #515 | 20 | 1 in 2,732 |
| Wisconsin | #541 | 9 | 1 in 2,723 |
| Tennessee | #548 | 11 | 1 in 2,774 |
| Texas | #614 | 50 | 1 in 3,333 |
| Oklahoma | #637 | 6 | 1 in 2,870 |
| Virginia | #652 | 11 | 1 in 3,336 |
| Michigan | #685 | 11 | 1 in 3,886 |
| Ohio | #687 | 14 | 1 in 3,889 |
| Colorado | #698 | 7 | 1 in 3,406 |
| Massachusetts | #725 | 6 | 1 in 4,374 |
| Arizona | #753 | 9 | 1 in 3,725 |
| Maryland | #765 | 6 | 1 in 4,120 |
| North Carolina | #769 | 11 | 1 in 4,220 |
| Utah | #776 | 5 | 1 in 3,809 |
| Florida | #797 | 18 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Illinois | #844 | 13 | 1 in 4,865 |
| Georgia | #851 | 11 | 1 in 4,611 |
| New Jersey | #918 | 7 | 1 in 5,475 |
| Washington | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 6,272 |
| New York | #1,470 | 9 | 1 in 10,530 |
| California | #1,891 | 13 | 1 in 16,791 |
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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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 4,416 of them was named Lainey, which outranked 96.5% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).