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How popular is the name Lana?
Births per year, rank history and how many Lanas are alive today.
Lana (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 253rd in 2025 with 185 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 241 babies were given the name, the 208th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2023, with 240 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 5,200 babies have been named Lana in England and Wales since 1996. Lana is one spelling of a name also recorded as Layana; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Lana you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Lanas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 21, and there are at least 5,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Lana.
How many babies are named Lana each year?
Includes all spellings: Lana, Layana. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Lana spelling rank?
Where does the Layana spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Lana most popular?
Lana peaked in 2023, when 253 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Lana?
At least 5,800 people named Lana in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Lana?
Most living Lanas are between 7 and 21; the most common age is about 13.
Is Lana becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.