How popular is the name Lana?

Lana ranks 487th among girls' names in US records, with 58,849 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 8,474.

Is Lana a unisex name?

No. Lana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1948, when 1,491 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#487 of girl names

Pronounced L AE1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Lana is a girls' name, and first appears in 1885. It has been given to 58,849 children — the 487th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1948, when 1,491 children were given it.

1948Girls: 1,491Boys: 5

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lana?: Lana ranks 487th among girls' names in US records, with 58,849 births since 1885. Over the past decade it accounts for 8,474.
Is Lana a unisex name?: No. Lana is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lana most popular?: 1948, when 1,491 children were given the name. It has been in use for 140 years and is still recorded as of 2024.