Lane
Lane is a boy's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 258th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 250th. About 48,000 Lanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lane boys named Lane
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 52,177
- Estimated living today
- 48,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 258th
- Rank in 2025
- 250th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 4,615 / 47,562
How old the living Lanes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 52,177 babies given the name since 1881, about 48,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 2,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lanes
- Lane Smith (1936–2005)American actor
- Lane Garrison (born 1980)American actor
- Lane Davies (born 1950)American actor
- Lane Chandler (1899–1972)American actor
- Lane Evans (1951–2014)American congressman, attorney, Marine
People named Lane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lane is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lane is most concentrated in Montana (3.8×), Wyoming (3.7×), South Dakota (3.6×), Idaho (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Lane peaked:
Lane elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Lane | 53 | 2,693rd |
| England and Wales girls | Lane | 10 | 4,634th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lane among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lane | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lane against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.