Girl name#857 of girl names
Lainey
Pronounced L AY1 N EY1 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 57 years in use
How popular is Lainey?
Lainey is a girls' name, and first appears in 1968. It has been given to 22,674 children — the 857th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 5,147 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- L AY1 N EY1
- Stress pattern:
- 11
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Lainey
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Lainey
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Lainey?
- Lainey ranks 857th among girls' names in US records, with 22,674 births since 1968. Over the past decade it accounts for 16,082.
- Is Lainey a unisex name?
- No. Lainey is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Lainey most popular?
- 2024, when 5,147 children were given the name. It has been in use for 57 years and is still recorded as of 2024.