Lane

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lane: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lane: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #2,357, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#2357highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2021

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#5591
2020	#5493
2021	#4634

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 11 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #2357 among boys in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Lane appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 47 births with the name.

Lane across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lane's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#3254 (2024)	11 of 29	47 (1996–2024)	7 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#5591 (2019)	#4634 (2021)	#4634 (2021)	3 of 3	10 (2019–2021)	4 (2021)

Lane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lane in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	9	3 of 10	3
2010s	20	4 of 10	5
2020s	10	2 of 10	5

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lane appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2357 in England and Wales in 1996.

Lane's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,357, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
5 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
5 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#3,254position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
7births registered in its largest year, 2018Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Landon · #866, 25y
Laney · #355, 27y
Lani · #916, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Carmine · #2357, 12y
Davian · #2357, 16y
Oghenetega · #2357, 18y
Pavlos · #2357, 17y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adarsh · #2357, 19y
Carmine · #2357, 12y
Davian · #2357, 16y
Oghenetega · #2357, 18y

Lane and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lane without appearing here.

Lane moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4647 and #2613 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Madison Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4647 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Brooke Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4812 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Shannon Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4812 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.

Moved ahead of Lane

Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #875.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #2104.
Hudson Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #1850.
Theodor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #2425.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2357 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lane

Lane at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lane across 2 official records

Lane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lane appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Lane and the names beside it

Lane moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lane

Lane at a glance

Lane across 2 official records

Lane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lane appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Lane and the names beside it

Lane moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lane