How Many People Are Named Lanny?
people named Lanny are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 59,255 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,644 babies named Lanny in Social Security records from 1919 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
498 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of LANCE, LANDON, and other names beginning with Lan.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Lanny, 0.9% were girls and 99.1% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lanny alive today is about 66 years old, and 72% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 58 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lanny first appears in the records in 1919 and was given most often in 1949, to 498 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1919 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Lanny has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #299, in 1942.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #299 (1942) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #347 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lanny alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lanny were born in Texas than in any other state: about 479 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lanny was given 3 times as often in Nebraska, 2.5 times in Tennessee and 2.3 times in Kentucky.
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