Lana
Lana reached its high-water mark in 1948 at number 188, and has been recorded 57,449 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 406th. About 49,000 Lanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,449
- Estimated living today
- 49,000
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1948
- Best rank
- 188th
- Rank in 2025
- 406th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 57,434 / 15
How old the living Lanas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,449 babies given the name since 1885, about 49,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Russian
Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на, diminutive of several names including Светла́на.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lanas
- Lana Del Rey (born 1985)American singer-songwriter
- Lana Turner (1921–1995)American actress
- Lana Rhoades (born 1996)American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress
- Lana Condor (born 1997)Vietnamese-American actress
- Lana Parrilla (born 1977)American actress
- Lana Wood (born 1946)American actress
- Lana Clarkson (1962–2003)actress and fashion model from the United States
- Lana Bastašić (born 1986)Bosnian writer
People named Lana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lana is most concentrated in South Dakota (1.9×), North Dakota (1.7×), Indiana (1.7×), Kentucky (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1948
The most popular girls’ names the year Lana peaked:
Lana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Lana | 28,055 | 32nd |
| England and Wales girls | Lana | 5,242 | 208th |
| Belgium girls | Lana | 1,943 | 79th |
| Switzerland girls | Lana | 1,359 | 77th |
| Scotland girls | Lana | 940 | 149th |
| Ireland girls | Lana | 588 | 174th |
| Norway girls | Lana | 476 | 186th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lana | 285 | 123rd |
| Poland girls | Lana | 69 birth registrations | 372nd |
| France boys | Lana | 5 | 5,060th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lana: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lana | 744 | 0.060% | 116th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lana | 607 | 0.140% | 35th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lana | 6 | 0.009% | 152nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lana | 2 | 0.054% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lana is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.23% of children were given it – 34 of them.
Lana: rank by region
In 2025, Lana was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lana | 329 | 16 |
| Wallonia | Lana | 452 | 5 |
| Brussels | Lana | 194 | 6 |
In 2025, Lana was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Lana | 180 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Lana | 255 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lana appears in the lists for Province of Liège (157th), Brussels-Capital Region (194th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lana by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 160 | 113th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Lana | 2,558 | 2,829 |
| Finland girls | Lana | 135 | 148 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 319 women called Lana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Lana | 16 | 0.039 | 1,527 |
| Málaga | Lana | 26 | 0.028 | 1,688 |
| Barcelona | Lana | 76 | 0.025 | 1,898 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Lana | 20 | 0.019 | 2,513 |
| Valencia/València | Lana | 26 | 0.018 | 2,215 |
| Tarragona | Lana | 8 | 0.018 | 2,438 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.