Lana Girl
How popular is Lana?
#406 girl name in 2025
768 baby girls were named Lana in the US in 2025, making it the 406th most popular girl name.
Lana popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #406 for girls (▼ 32 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 768 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-17% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #355 in 2015, #393 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1948 (1,465 girls) |
| Highest rank | #188 in 1948 |
| First recorded | 1885 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lana counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lana family of names ranked #380 for girls in 2025 (#359 the year before), with 837 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lana | 768 | 92% |
| Lanna | 20 | 2% |
| Lanah | 18 | 2% |
| Lahna | 10 | 1% |
| Lanai | 16 | 2% |
| Lanay | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lana is most popular
Babies named Lana per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 2.0 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- Illinois: 0.9 per 1,000 (205 girls)
- California: 0.8 per 1,000 (686 girls)
- Michigan: 0.8 per 1,000 (144 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.8 per 1,000 (94 girls)
Lana by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21 | #894 |
| 1890s | 63 | #794 |
| 1900s | 81 | #1,011 |
| 1910s | 142 | #1,521 |
| 1920s | 230 | #1,324 |
| 1930s | 251 | #727 |
| 1940s | 10,199 | #188 |
| 1950s | 8,932 | #205 |
| 1960s | 8,320 | #280 |
| 1970s | 5,235 | #336 |
| 1980s | 3,484 | #466 |
| 1990s | 2,083 | #798 |
| 2000s | 5,766 | #405 |
| 2010s | 7,921 | #352 |
| 2020s | 4,706 | #374 |
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Questions
- Is Lana a boy or girl name?
- Lana is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lana were girls.
- How popular is the name Lana?
- 768 baby girls were named Lana in the US in 2025, making it the 406th most popular girl name.
- When was Lana most popular?
- Lana peaked in 1948, when 1,465 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #188 in 1948.
- How many people are named Lana?
- 57,449 babies have been named Lana in the US since 1880. We estimate about 49,704 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 49.
- Where is Lana most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lana was most common in Hawaii, at 2.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.