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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lanny

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

9,577

peak year 1949

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1949
498 births
Best rank
#299
in 1942
First recorded
1919
#4,508 that year
Last recorded
2024
no later published record
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
89 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1949498#303Peak
  2. 1950489#306
  3. 1942414#299
  4. 1951409#336
  5. 1941371#301

Rank over time

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

Best rank #299 in 1942 · peak births 498 in 1949

Boys and girls

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

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

9,577 boys · 67 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 Lanny has ranked, decade by decade

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