# Lainey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lainey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 28,431 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 28,421 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,251, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 544 | 533 |
| 2012 | 516 | 568 |
| 2013 | 490 | 584 |
| 2014 | 514 | 585 |
| 2015 | 531 | 576 |
| 2016 | 577 | 542 |
| 2017 | 615 | 510 |
| 2018 | 684 | 460 |
| 2019 | 822 | 381 |
| 2020 | 844 | 366 |
| 2021 | 1,229 | 250 |
| 2022 | 1,698 | 174 |
| 2023 | 3,941 | 54 |
| 2024 | 5,156 | 38 |
| 2025 | 5,738 | 30 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 13,508 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,116 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 789 |
| 2012 | 49 | 789 |
| 2013 | 45 | 839 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 30 | 1,139 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2017 | 58 | 701 |
| 2018 | 50 | 767 |
| 2019 | 60 | 651 |
| 2020 | 54 | 683 |
| 2021 | 53 | 709 |
| 2022 | 48 | 762 |
| 2023 | 74 | 528 |
| 2024 | 133 | 325 |
| 2025 | 219 | 216 |

## People named Lainey

- Lainey Wilson, American country singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.