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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lanier

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#13,122

down −5,041 places

2025 births

5

down −5 births

All-time births

1,063

0% of them in 2025

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1952
19 births
Best rank
#1,783
in 1952
First recorded
1914
#2,550 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1966
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
105 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195219#1,783Peak
  2. 197219#2,125
  3. 192318#1,908
  4. 192718#1,921
  5. 194416#1,788

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,783 in 1952 · peak births 19 in 1952

Boys and girls

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

● 87% boys■ 13% girls

1,063 boys · 154 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 Lanier has ranked, decade by decade

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