Lane

Lane is the 223rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 129,618 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,306.

By the numbers

People: 129,618
Rank: 223rd
How common: 1 in 2,306
Per 100,000: 43.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lane described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.8%
Black, not Hispanic 16.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Lane

Diane Lane (born 1965)American actress
Nathan Lane (born 1956)American actor
Harriet Lane (1830–1903)First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Sasha Lane (born 1995)American actress
Priscilla Lane (1915–1995)American actress
Edward William Lane (1801–1876)British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peace maker
Tory Lane (born 1982)American pornographic actress and adult film director
Francis Lane (1874–1927)athletics competitor

People named Lane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lane

Also a first name

Lane has been given to 52,177 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.