Girl
Lana
Lana is a girl's name, a solidly familiar choice, that has stayed remarkably steady since peaking in the 1940s.
EtymologyShort for Alana/Svetlana
Slavic"Handsome"; or Slavic "light"
Births by decade
1900s
81
1910s
142
1920s
230
1930s
251
1940s
10,207
1950s
8,932
1960s
8,326
1970s
5,236
1980s
3,482
1990s
2,082
2000s
5,759
2010s
6,226
Peaked in the 1940s · 50,954 total U.S. births since 1900