Lanier
About 1,217 American babies have been named Lanier since 1914, most of them around 1952. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 830 Laniers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lanier boys named Lanier
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,217
- Estimated living today
- 830
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1952
- Best rank
- 1,749th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 154 / 1,063
How old the living Laniers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,217 babies given the name since 1914, about 830 are alive — 68 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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 Lanier is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lanier is most concentrated in Georgia (33.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1952
The most popular boys’ names the year Lanier peaked:
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Lanier against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.