# Lanny (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lanny/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,644 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,577 / 67 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 5 | 4,717 |
| 1944 | 5 | 4,923 |
| 1946 | 6 | 4,720 |
| 1947 | 6 | 5,026 |
| 1952 | 7 | 4,716 |
| 1953 | 6 | 5,372 |
| 1954 | 5 | 6,197 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,217 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,755 |
| 1982 | 5 | 11,412 |
| 2009 | 5 | 18,921 |
| 2010 | 5 | 18,623 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | 7,322 |
| 2005 | 15 | 5,459 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,202 |
| 2007 | 10 | 7,938 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,743 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,867 |
| 2011 | 14 | 6,129 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,399 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,234 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,531 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,582 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,165 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,273 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,360 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,421 |

## People named Lanny

- Lanny Barby, French Canadian pornographic actress
- Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
- Lanny Bassham, American sports shooter
- Lanny Flaherty, American actor (1942–2024)
- Lanny Poffo, Canadian-American professional wrestler and author

## 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.