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.

1registrar recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#2357highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2021

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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 12 of the 30 years from 1996 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #2357 among boys in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3256 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
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 12 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 53 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)	#3256 (2025)	12 of 30	53 (1996–2025)	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	16	3 of 10	5

See the names England and Wales has 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.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2025. 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
2025	England and Wales	male	#3256	6	High	Verified
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.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

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 2,576 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
In 2017 they stood at #4647 and #2613 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Madison
In 2017 they stood at #4647 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Brooke
In 2018 they stood at #4812 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #4702.
Shannon
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
In 2003 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #875.
Rune
In 2018 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #2728 and #2104.
Hudson
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #1850.
Theodor
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2425 and #2425.

What is known about Lane

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2025. 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

Lane and the names beside it

Lane moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lane

What is known about Lane

Lane at a glance

Lane across 2 official records

Lane by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Lane appears in

Lane and the names beside it

Lane moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lane