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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lana

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#406

down −32 places

2025 births

768

down −62 births

All-time births

57,434

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1948
1,465 births
Best rank
#188
in 1948
First recorded
1885
#990 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1978
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
136 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19481,465#188Peak
  2. 19471,364#195
  3. 19491,318#206
  4. 19501,314#205
  5. 19461,300#189

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #188 in 1948 · peak births 1,465 in 1948

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

15 boys · 57,434 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lana has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.