How rare is the name Lanette?

4,156 people in the United States have the first name Lanette, about 1 in 72,674. It ranks #4,477 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

LANETTE

#4,477

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,156
About
1 in 72,674
This common or more
84.1%
Who bears it

Of the 4,156 people named Lanette, 63.8% reported their origin as White, 21.6% as Black and 8.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lanette peaked in 1964, when 186 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19172024
Peak year
1964
Births that year
186
In 2024
7 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,005 babies have been given the name since 1917. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Lanette by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,386. The largest share of babies named Lanette, 38.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#10,6457
1920s#7,78146
1930s#5,41277
1940s#2,426369
1950s#1,767910
1960s#1,3861,600
1970s#1,9321,024
1980s#3,150565
1990s#7,422226
2000s#15,419109
2010s#21,46565
2020s#35,7127
Greatest Generation 1901–270.8%
Silent Generation 1928–455.1%
Baby boom 1946–6437.8%
Generation X 1965–8038.5%
Millennials 1981–9613.1%
Generation Z 1997–123.7%
2013 and later1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Lanette is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lanette has been most common in California (3.1×), Iowa (2.6×), and Michigan (2×), and least common in Florida (0.53×).

2,329 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Lanette

1 other first name also has 4,156 people.

#4,477 Kynlee · 4,156

Either side of Lanette

#4,474 Rosalio · 4,157#4,477 Kynlee · 4,156#4,479 Kaeden · 4,152#4,479 Olin · 4,152

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lanette, most common first.

#14,777 Lanetta · 791#20,700 Lannette · 497#40,339 Laneta · 185#41,276 Lanett · 178#46,679 Lanet · 142

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