Laney

What Laney means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Laney yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #673 vs #2,278 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Laney?

US: Steady: #641 in 2015, #673 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2070 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 635 girls got the name (#481 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 3,818 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 21,107 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ID (1.12 per 1,000 girls), NE (0.99 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.88 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Laney is #673 in the US and #2278 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Laney were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lainey5,738 US · 219 E&W
• Lana768 US · 185 E&W
• Lani131 US · 25 E&W
• Lainee129 US
• Laynee121 US
• Lenny61 US
• Lanae32 US · 5 E&W
• Lanna20 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Lanea
• Lanee
• Laneigh
• Lanie
• Lany

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Laney

Girls

• Nevaeh#165From the word “heaven”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Ella#29Short form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Natalia#144“birthday (of the Lord)”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Maximus#275Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1997, with 5 babies
• Carson#124“rock”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Laney’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.