Lanny
Lanny reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 303, and has been recorded 9,644 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 5,800 Lannys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lanny boys named Lanny
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,644
- Estimated living today
- 5,800
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1949
- Best rank
- 303rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 67 / 9,577
How old the living Lannys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,644 babies given the name since 1919, about 5,800 are alive — 60 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 3,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 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.
Notable Lannys
- Lanny Barby (born 1981)French Canadian pornographic actress
- Lanny McDonald (born 1953)Canadian ice hockey player
- Lanny Bassham (born 1947)American sports shooter
People named Lanny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lanny is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lanny is most concentrated in Nebraska (3.4×), Iowa (2.8×), Kentucky (2.7×), Tennessee (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1949
The most popular boys’ names the year Lanny peaked:
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Lanny 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.