Girl
Lanie
The name Lanie carries the meaning "Uncertain shortened form". It is having a real moment, more popular in the 2000s than ever before. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyShort for Delaney/Elaine
EtymologyUncertain shortened form
Births by decade
1900s
75
1910s
141
1920s
121
1930s
59
1940s
116
1950s
106
1960s
157
1970s
235
1980s
271
1990s
632
2000s
1,808
2010s
1,017
Peaked in the 2000s · 4,738 total U.S. births since 1900