Landy vs Laney
American parents have registered 14,360 Laneys since 1880, against 861 Landys. Laney is still ahead, with 421 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Landy 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 118 years in which either name was published, Laney for 102 years and Landy for 16 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1883–1951 Laney ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1955–1957 Landy ahead
- 1958–2025 Laney ahead, apart from 2 short spells
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Landy | Laney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 861 | 14,360 |
| Most in one year | 27 | 640 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 421 |
| Estimated living today | 690 | 14,000 |
| Median age today | 42 | 15 |
| Peak year | 1956 | 2006 |
| Best rank | 1,511th boys | 486th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 673rd |
| First recorded | 1917 | 1883 |
| Girls / boys | 255 / 606 | 14,024 / 336 |
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 Landys alive today are over 42; half the Laneys are over 15. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Landy and Laney.