Laney

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Laney: Recorded every year since 1998, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #407 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2407
1999	#3225
2000	#2167
2001	#1520
2002	#1784
2003	#1628
2004	#1459
2005	#1589
2006	#1280
2007	#1337
2008	#1447
2009	#1139
2010	#1520
2011	#1327
2012	#1297
2013	#1537
2014	#1628
2015	#2070
2016	#2547
2017	#1817
2018	#2340
2019	#2040
2020	#1846
2021	#2711
2022	#1685
2023	#1959
2024	#1743

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1743 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2407 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2024
Highest recorded position: #355 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2017–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Laney appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 406 births with the name.

Laney 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.

Laney'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 · Girls	#2407 (1998)	#1139 (2009)	#1743 (2024)	27 of 27	406 (1998–2024)	27 (2009)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#355 (2017)	#355 (2017)	#407 (2024)	3 of 8	10 (2017–2024)	4 (2017)

Laney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Laney in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2000s	156	10 of 10	16
2010sbusiest	168	10 of 10	17
2020s	72	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

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

Laney appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Laney'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	female	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1817	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1337	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1280	20	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2017, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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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Lanna · #432, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Akram · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 29y
Lilyanna · #355, 22y
Portia · #355, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akram · #355, 30y
Alia · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 29y
Jess · #355, 31y

Laney was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Laney 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 Laney without appearing here.

Laney moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #4535.
Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3225 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Laney

Mila Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2407 and #2701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3225 and #2189.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1817 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2340 and #1436.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1520 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1784 and #938.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1628 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2070 and #1240.

Moved the opposite way to Laney

Martine Compare
Between 1998 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Laney went from #2407 to #1327 while Martine went from #1036 to #4764.

Moved the same way as Laney

Blake Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Laney went from #3225 to #1743 and Blake from #3900 to #432.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Laney went from #3225 to #1743 and Frida from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Laney went from #3225 to #1743 and Meabh from #3225 to #952.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Laney

Laney at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Laney across 2 official records

Laney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Laney appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Laney at a glance

Laney across 2 official records

Laney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Laney appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Laney

Laney and the names beside it

Laney moved ahead of

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