How popular is the name Lane?

Lane ranks 422nd among boys' names in US records, with 62,606 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 17,570.

Is Lane a unisex name?

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

2019, when 1,945 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Layne, Laine, Lain. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Boy name#422 of boy names

Pronounced L EY1 N (ARPABET)

Lane is a boys' name, and first appears in 1881. It has been given to 62,606 children — the 422nd most common boys' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2019, when 1,945 children were given it.

Three other spellings are counted in that total — Layne, Laine and Lain — because they are pronounced identically.

20191,945

These spellings sound identical to Lane and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

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 Lane?: Lane ranks 422nd among boys' names in US records, with 62,606 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 17,570.
Is Lane a unisex name?: No. Lane is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lane most popular?: 2019, when 1,945 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Lane spelled?: Layne, Laine, Lain. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.