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Lannie

About 3,424 American babies have been named Lannie since 1881, most of them around 1949. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,800 Lannies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lannie boys named Lannie

Girls and boys called Lannie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Lannie crossed from girls to boys in 1937, and has stayed there for 36 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 88% boys, and in 1976 it was 45%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 55 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,424
Estimated living today
1,800
Median age today
66
Peak year
1949
Best rank
569th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1881
Girls / boys
1,566 / 1,858

How old the living Lannies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,424 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,800 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 940 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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 Lannie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lannie is most concentrated in Kentucky (7.8×), North Carolina (7.7×), Tennessee (6.9×), Mississippi (4.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1949

The most popular boys’ names the year Lannie peaked:

All the names of 1949

Related names

Lannie 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.