Landis vs Laney

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Landis Laney

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 122 years in which either name was published, Laney for 62 years and Landis for 60 years. The lead changed hands 28 times.

• 1883–1910 Laney ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1912–1961 Landis ahead, apart from 4 short spells
• 1965–1968 Laney ahead
• 1969–1972 Landis ahead
• 1980–1982 Laney ahead
• 1986–1988 Landis ahead
• 1989–2025 Laney ahead

17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Landises alive today are over 32; half the Laneys are over 15. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Landis North Carolina (13.2×), Pennsylvania (5.5×)
• Laney Oklahoma (2.6×), Arkansas (2.3×), Missouri (1.9×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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